# Staff Engineer, Autonomous Driving Data Platform & Curation

We are CARIAD, an automotive software development team with the Volkswagen Group. Our mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun. To achieve that we are building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year. We’re looking for talented, digital minds like you to help us create code that moves the world. Together with you, we’ll build outstanding digital experiences and products for all Volkswagen Group brands that will transform mobility. Join us as we shape the future of the car and everyone around it. Role Summary: The Staff Engineer, Autonomous Driving Data Platform & Curation is a hands-on staff-level individual contributor who owns the path from raw multimodal vehicle data to reliable, versioned, and model-ready datasets. The ideal candidate combines production data or ML systems experience with practical knowledge of autonomous-driving data and can lead ingestion, schema, storage, query, curation, quality, and delivery. This engineer designs and operates datasets containing more than 10 million records or samples, eval

- **Id**: 4148590
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cariad-staff-engineer-autonomous-driving-data-platform-curation>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-11T15:42:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:17:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 13100
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- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Automotive Software

## Company

- **Id**: 135
- **Name**: CARIAD
- **Domain**: cariad.technology
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cariad>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **Dask** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 61

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T08:17:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.662
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T09:57:12Z

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