Hybrid VLA Engineer – Autonomous Driving

at 42dot

• Job title: VLA Engineer – Autonomous Driving
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, PyTorch
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Pangyo, South Korea

About the role

• VLA engineer developing deep learning models for autonomous driving at 42dot. Focus on planning, decision-making, and action generation using advanced machine learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop VLA-based models for autonomous driving, focusing on planning, decision-making, and action generation
• Apply imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and generative modeling to improve driving behavior and long-horizon decision-making
• Fine-tune and adapt multimodal models (VLM / VLA-style architectures) for autonomous driving tasks using large-scale driving datasets
• Define and evaluate multimodal representations for driving data (video, BEV, map, vehicle state, actions, optional language annotations)
• Build and maintain end-to-end machine learning pipelines from data curation and training to evaluation and deployment
• Evaluate models in open-loop, closed-loop simulation, and real-vehicle environments, with a focus on safety and robustness
• Collaborate with perception, prediction, planning, control, and platform teams to integrate ML models into production vehicle software stacks

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with deep learning models for autonomous driving, robotics, or sequential decision-making systems
• Practical experience applying imitation learning and/or reinforcement learning to real-world problems
• Solid understanding of Transformer-based architectures and multimodal learning
• Proven experience deploying machine learning models in production or safety-critical systems
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with PyTorch
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed training environments
• Ability to collaborate effectively across software, vehicle, and hardware teams.
• Experience with VLM / VLA-style models applied to autonomous driving or robotics (preferred)
• Experience with closed-loop simulation, SIL/HIL, or real-vehicle testing (preferred)
• Experience optimizing inference using TensorRT, CUDA, quantization, or pruning (preferred)
• Experience deploying models on embedded or vehicle-grade hardware (preferred)

Benefits

• 이력서 제출 시 주민등록번호, 가족관계, 혼인 여부, 연봉, 사진, 신체조건, 출신 지역 등 채용절차법상 요구 금지된 정보는 제외 부탁드립니다.
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