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In this role, you will collaborate with a diverse, cross-functional team to design and develop large-scale HD mapping algorithms, workflows, and data pipelines. Your work will directly impact our ability to efficiently map new cities and continuously update existing maps at scale, playing a critical role in accelerating our autonomous vehicle deployment.
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Software Engineer - Perception / Mapping Data
Foster City, CA
full-timeSoftwareJob Description
High-definition HD maps are foundational to enabling safe, scalable autonomous driving. We are seeking highly motivated engineers who are passionate about solving complex, real-world problems and building state-of-the-art mapping systems.
In this role, you will collaborate with a diverse, cross-functional team to design and develop large-scale HD mapping algorithms, workflows, and data pipelines. Your work will directly impact our ability to efficiently map new cities and continuously update existing maps at scale, playing a critical role in accelerating our autonomous vehicle deployment.
In this role, you will:
- Design and build a high-quality, large-scale mapping dataset and data pipelines for training and evaluating machine learning models
- Design and build tools for model performance benchmarking and introspection
- Collaborate closely with machine learning engineers to define and refine data curation and model training strategies that drive measurable improvements in model accuracy and performance.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with a variety of teams working on things such as perception, planning, prediction, simulation, etc
Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of experience
- Proficient in Python, TypeScript, React
- Experience with large-scale, multi-modal datasets, and web tooling for model benchmarking and introspection
- Ability to identify, clean, and process datasets containing high levels of noise or ambiguous classifications
Bonus Qualifications:
- Proficient in C++
- Experience in computer vision, machine learning algorithms
- Knowledge of geospatial data and coordinate systems
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First seen: May 23, 2026
Last updated: May 26, 2026