Senior Research Engineer, Computer Vision (LFV/WFM)
Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA
The role
Our team is looking for a Research Engineer to help develop and deploy our world foundation models (WFMs) toward their key milestones in the autonomous driving domain. As our WFMs scale in both capability and ambition, we need a strong engineer who can bridge the gap between research ideas and production-grade systems. This is not a traditional software engineering role; you will work directly alongside research scientists, understand the research deeply enough to make independent technical decisions, and play a key role in enabling the deployment of key research breakthroughs into close-to-production environments.
As a Research Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting and optimizing large-scale distributed training of diffusion and transformer models; maintaining the infrastructure that ingests, unifies, and serves heterogeneous multi-modal datasets at scale; and developing tools and pipelines that accelerate the research-to-results cycle. You will work closely with researchers to prototype new ideas, run experiments, and help ship our most successful models toward real-world applications with real-world impact.