Senior ML Platform Engineer - AD/ADAS at Woven by Toyota
Palo Alto, CA
$140,000–$230,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on the Machine Learning Platform team, building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and pipelines that allow ML engineers to develop, train, evaluate, and deploy perception, prediction, and planning models into an autonomous driving stack. Day-to-day work spans dataset curation pipelines, distributed cloud training systems, evaluation frameworks, and developer-facing libraries. It suits engineers with solid MLOps experience who want to work close to production autonomous vehicle software.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 330 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 250–430
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled 'Software Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer' with no seniority level in the title; the level advertised in the title is therefore Unspecified. The 5+ years overall experience requirement and end-to-end MLOps ownership support a Senior classification.
A BSc/BEng is listed under Minimum Qualifications but the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent industry experience' as a substitute, so the degree requirement is set to None.
PyTorch and TensorFlow are listed as a slash-pair ('PyTorch/Tensorflow') in the requirements section, indicating either is acceptable; PyTorch is used as the primary name with TensorFlow as an alternative.
The CI systems requirement names 'GitHub Actions' as an example ('such as GitHub Actions'); alternatives reflect other common CI platforms a hiring manager would accept.
The Nice to Have section lists Apache Spark alongside Airflow, Flyte, Flink, and Ray as interchangeable ML pipeline technologies; Spark is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Rust and C++ are listed as interchangeable options ('Rust and/or C++') under Nice to Have; Rust is used as the primary name with C++ as the alternative.
The role requires on-site presence in Palo Alto three days per week (hybrid), so remote is set to false. The Palo Alto office falls within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA CBSA.
Business-level Japanese proficiency is listed under Nice to Have and is not extracted as a skill, as it is a soft/language attribute rather than a concrete technology or tool.
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