# Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Localization at May Mobility

- Company: May Mobility
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://maymobility.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: USA - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/maymobility/jobs/8502300002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/may-mobility-lead-machine-learning-engineer-localization/

## About the role

The Autonomy Mapping & Localization group builds the spatial intelligence, semantic and topological mapping, and state estimation that let our autonomous vehicles understand where they are and what the world looks like, and we scale that technology safely and reliably to commercial operations serving riders and consumers. We are looking for a Lead ML Engineer to join our team and architect the next generation of our localization stack.

## What they're looking for

- Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field with a strong mathematical and engineering foundation
- 7+ years of industry experience developing and deploying ML/DL models for computer vision or localization at scale
- Deep expertise in several of the following areas:
- Computer Vision Foundations: Object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and feature detection/description (e.g., SIFT, ORB, SuperPoint)
- Vectorized landmark and feature detection networks, BEV-based scene representation, and temporal modeling
- Self-supervised/semi-supervised learning, open-vocabulary detection, and vision/fusion Foundation Models

Tags: Autonomy Engineering