What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI Research Scientist, Perception position at Gatik AI?
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 are currently looking for research scientists with specialized skills in Computer Vision specifically related to Autonomous Driving applications - LiDAR, camera, radar Perception technologies, and scene understanding. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for researching and developing Machine Learning models that accurately detect and track the surrounding environment, thereby enabling risk-aware and reliable behavior downstream processing 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. You will collaborate with a team of experts in AI, robotics, and software engineering to push the boundaries of what's possible in autonomous trucking.
What you'll do
- Develop and work on existing state-of-the-art perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles to advance research in scene understanding, sensor fusion, 3D object detection, segmentation, and tracking in complex dynamic environments
- Work on multiple parts of the Perception ML pipeline : 2D and 3D, closed and open vocabulary detection, data-driven tracking, classification and segmentation
- Design and implement sensor fusion, sensor degradation, and other safety-critical systems
- Conduct thorough validation and testing of ML models in simulation to ensure robust performance and generalization
- Analyze model performance and identify areas for improvement, iterating on design and implementation to enhance model accuracy and reliability
- Document model architectures, methodologies, and results clearly and concisely
- Participate in the AI Research team activities targeting internal education and external scientific image
- Work closely with the Production teams to push your idea into the deployment
- Propose new ideas and build on top of state-of-the-art knowledge
What we're looking for
2D vs 3D Detection
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.
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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.
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