Senior Software Engineer - ML Platform

Latitude AI (lat.ai) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.  

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 making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people. 

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.

Meet the team:

The Machine Learning Platform team is the engine driving all ML initiatives at Latitude. We provide the essential services for every ML pipeline, training run, and critical workflow automation across multiple internal teams.

Our flagship product is BlueMind, our in-house platform for orchestrating, executing, and rigorously tracking all ML experiments. Every piece of ML training at Latitude runs on BlueMind, which seamlessly integrates with our high-performance computing cluster, dataset versioning tools, and logging/artifact frameworks.

Beyond ML training, we maintain platforms that orchestrate vital business processes, including simulation execution, metrics calculation, bench test execution, map and labeled data production, vehicle/simulation event triage.

Our platforms utilize a powerful combination of cutting-edge off-the-shelf and robust in-house web applications and libraries, all integrated with cloud resources.

We are looking for experienced candidates who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and distributed environment. If you are a senior engineer who is ready to transform customer needs and innovative ideas into impactful new platform features, we want to hear from you. 

What you’ll do: 

• Drive Innovation on the BlueMind ML Platform: Contribute to the development and enhancement of the in-house BlueMind platform, a critical tool for ML experiment tracking and execution. This platform supports the construction and execution of complex ML training and inference workflows on an on-premise HPC cluster, integrating with other internal and off-the-shelf services for dataset versioning, data lineage, artifact tracking, checkpointing, logging, and metrics tracking
• Serve as a Trusted Partner to ML Teams: Regularly engage with and understand the unique needs of diverse ML teams across Latitude (including Scalable Machine Learning, Sensing, Autonomy Behavior, State Estimation, Intelligent Systems Evaluation, Bench Testing, and Virtual Test Ecosystem). You will be instrumental in capturing requirements, authoring robust design documents, implementing high-quality solutions, validating results, and providing critical support for production services
• Tackle Complex, High-Impact Challenges: Apply your experience and creativity to solve large-scale, complex technical problems in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a direct focus on accelerating Latitude's product launch goals and core mission
• Develop and Own Full-Stack Features: Design, implement, and enhance a wide range of full-stack capabilities, spanning web APIs/services, React applications and component libraries, custom and generated client libraries, command-line interfaces, Kubernetes resources, cloud architecture, and crucial integration solutions for our on-premise HPC cluster
• Collaborate Across Engineer