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Software Engineering Manager II - Unified Modeling (Machine Learning)

Latitude · Palo Alto, California · On-site

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About Latitude

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About the role

As an Engineering Manager for Unified Modeling, you will lead and support an engineering team focused on building production-grade deep learning models for autonomous driving. You will combine team leadership with hands-on technical guidance, helping researchers and engineers translate novel computer vision methods into robust, real-time software deployed to vehicle compute. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Leadership Experience: 2+ years of experience managing software or ML engineering teams, or 4+ years as a technical lead guiding complex machine learning perception projects
  • Machine Learning & Vision Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of deep learning architectures, computer vision, and spatio-temporal modeling using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Production Deployment: Proven track record of developing and deploying computer vision models onto production or physical robotic/embedded systems
  • Software Fundamentals: Strong proficiency in Python and C++ software development, with a solid grasp of software design and testing principles
  • Collaboration & Communication: Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with autonomy consumers, data infrastructure teams, and systems engineers
More about this role

Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) is building the future of Ford’s autonomy roadmap to make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone. Bringing this vision to scale, our fully in-house developed hands-free ADAS platform will debut on the all-new Ford Fathom in 2027.

When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to redefining the relationship between people and their vehicles for millions of customers.

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

The Unified Model development team is a group of highly skilled and experienced professionals who specialize in cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning technology. Together, we collaborate to create advanced, generalizable and latency-critical detection models that are capable of generating representations of static /dynamic actors, map...

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