Staff AI Systems Engineer- Autonomous Driving at Bosch Group
Sunnyvale, CA
$185,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 26, 2026
Sunnyvale, CA
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor and team leadership role focused on building systems engineering and testing frameworks for autonomous driving and ADAS technologies. Day-to-day work spans mentoring cross-functional AI systems teams, defining CI/CD and quality assurance standards, conducting design and code reviews, and integrating ML tooling across the development lifecycle. Best suited to an experienced engineer with a background in automated driving or robotics systems and a track record of leading technical teams.
Staff level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 150 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–190
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). 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 (6)
The posting has a significant internal contradiction: the header and intro frame this as an internship ('Autonomous Driving – Internship in Machine Learning'), yet the job description body describes a full-time 'Staff AI Systems Engineer' role with 5+ years of experience required, a Master's degree gate, and a $185K–$215K salary range. The role has been classified and extracted as the full-time Staff-level position, since the requirements, compensation, and responsibilities are entirely inconsistent with an internship.
The title 'Staff AI Systems Engineer' is used explicitly in the body, which is why seniority is assessed as Staff — the role is described as setting technical direction across multiple teams and influencing org-wide architecture, consistent with a Staff-level scope.
The Master's degree requirement is stated as a hard gate under Basic Qualifications, but includes '(or equivalent practical experience)' — however, because the degree is explicitly listed as a minimum qualification without a clear 'or equivalent experience' substitution path for the degree itself (only for the field), it is treated as required. Hiring managers should note the parenthetical may allow flexibility.
Location is inferred as California (Bosch ADAS/AD US operations are centered in Sunnyvale/San Jose, CA), based on the salary range being labeled 'US-California'. The CBSA is set to Los Angeles as a broad California proxy; the actual site may be in the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area (CBSA 41940).
All ML lifecycle and framework skills (PyTorch, TensorRT, ONNX, etc.) appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
Airflow and Argo Workflows are listed as alternatives to each other in the same parenthetical example under distributed/orchestration tools in Preferred Qualifications.
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