Tech Lead, Behavior (Prediction)

Who we are

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik's Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation. 

The company's proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers' logistics operations. 

About the role

We're currently looking for an experienced Technical Lead with specialized skills in Behavior, especially trajectory prediction, planning, and selection. You will play a vital role in developing ML models that accurately predict the behavior of surrounding agents and plan and select optimal trajectories for our AVs. In this pivotal role, you'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and deploying the ML algorithms that enable our trucks to safely navigate and operate in complex, dynamic environments both on-vehicle and within simulation environments for validation. This position requires a strong technical and ML background, hands-on software engineering experience, and a knack for technically lead engineers. You will collaborate with a team of experts in AI Research, robotics, and software engineering to push the boundaries of what's possible in autonomous trucking.

What you'll do

  • Develop and / or adjust existing state-of-the-art algorithms to advance / complement research in agent behavior prediction in interactive scenes in real-time
  • Work on marginal, conditional, and joint prediction 
  • Develop combined prediction and planning models using trending machine learning approaches
  • Work with large-scale datasets collected from sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, and radar to extract relevant features and preprocess data for model training
  • Develop robust testing and validation frameworks to ensure the reliability and safety of the behavior systems across diverse scenarios and edge cases
  • Conduct thorough validation and testing of ML models in simulation and real-world environments to ensure robust performance and generalization
  • Analyze model performance and identify areas for improvement, iterating on design and implementation to enhance prediction accuracy and reliability
  • Document model architectures, methodologies, and results clearly and concisely
  • Collaborate closely with the Data Engineering and AI Research teams to define project requirements, formulate innovative concepts, and co-design ML models and be responsible for their effective deployment in a real-world trucking environment
  • Participate in hiring process for and manage the top notch ML Behavior engineers

What we're looking for

  • Ph.D. or highly qualified M.S. candidate in one or more of the following areas: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a related field
  • You have at least 1-3 years of hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: Autonomous Driving (preferable), Robotics, or Deep Learning in general 
  • You have at least 1-3 years of research experience in one or more of the following areas: Behavior Prediction (preferable), Planning, Reinforcement Learning, Statistics, Probability theory 
  • You have at least 1 year of technical leadership experience inside an industrial setting 
  • Experience in data science including data collection, analysis, hypothesis formulation and verification
  • Deep knowledge of Autonomous Driving Behavior including
    • Prediction vs Planning
    • Marginal vs Conditional vs Joint
    • Open vs Closed loop
    • Imitation and Reinforcement Learning approaches
    • Application of Diffusion
  • Strong foundation in data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
  • Experience with latency analysis and optimization of safety critical software systems
  • Expertise in programming languages and tools critical for high-performance computing in Python/C++ including large-scale data processing, parallel programming, code optimization and machine learning including Deep Learning frameworks like TensorFlow/PyTorch 
  • Demonstrated ability to publish research findings in any of the top-tier technical journals and conferences (ICRA, CoRL, IROS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, etc.)
  • Experience with simulation environments for autonomous vehicles, such as CARLA, Waymax, or similar platforms, is a plus
  • You are passionate about Autonomous Driving!

More about Gatik

Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto. As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy.  By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik’s well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.

Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Careers at Gatik for more open roles.

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At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

 

Gatik is the leader in autonomous middle mile delivery, optimizing B2B logistics with its fleet of autonomous box trucks for efficient regional distribution.

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