Senior Software Engineer - AutoTagging (Python/Databricks)

Location: Remote within the United States; office location in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Salary: $160,800–$193,000 USD, plus bonus and stock options.

Company

Develops software for automated trucks and autonomous driving systems as part of the Daimler family.

What you will do

• Integrate, deploy, monitor, and operate automated event-tagging services across petabytes of vehicle log data.
• Build data engineering pipelines that transform and catalog tagged scenarios in an observations database.
• Develop production Python code covering data ingestion, transformation, model integration, and deployment.
• Build and operate Databricks workflows and scalable AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Own GitHub Actions CI/CD, observability, alerting, on-call response, and pipeline reliability.
• Collaborate with ML, perception, simulation, and systems teams to improve model deployment, data quality, performance, and cost.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production data pipeline or ML infrastructure work, and a BS or MS in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong Python experience building and maintaining production data or ML pipelines.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions.
• Required experience with Databricks and AWS, including Terraform or CloudFormation for distributed processing infrastructure.
• Experience with large-scale time series or unstructured datasets, production ML model integration, serving, monitoring, and rollback.
• Strong communication skills and experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch.

Nice to have

• Experience with auto-labeling pipelines, VLMs, zero-shot classification, or distributed frameworks such as Ray, Spark, or Daft.
• Familiarity with ROS bags, MCAP, Parquet, Arrow, Pegasus layers, vLLM, or SGLang.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, energetic, and team-focused work environment.
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match.
• Flexible schedule, generous paid vacation available immediately after starting, and company-wide holiday closures.
• AD&D and life insurance.