Senior Applied Scientist - ADAS
TomTom
Senior Applied Scientist - ADAS
TomTom is building a high-performance ADAS Online team focused on advancing state-of-the-art machine learning and AI algorithms for scene understanding and environmental awareness. As Senior Applied Scientist - ADAS, you will drive the algorithmic direction of the in-vehicle spatial awareness stack while remaining deeply hands-on in model design, experimentation, and performance improvement. Requires 7+ years of experience in machine learning, vision transformers, diffusion, or computer vision, with strong PyTorch expertise.
Senior Applied Scientist - ADAS
TomTom is building a high-performance ADAS Online team focused on advancing state-of-the-art machine learning and AI algorithms for scene understanding and environmental awareness. As Senior Applied Scientist - ADAS, you will drive the algorithmic direction of the in-vehicle spatial awareness stack while remaining deeply hands-on in model design, experimentation, and performance improvement. Requires 7+ years of experience in machine learning, vision transformers, diffusion, or computer vision, with strong PyTorch expertise.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical direction for physical AI algorithms
- Define and execute on a technical roadmap towards state-of-the-art reinforcement learning using physical AI world models
- Design, implement, and improve ML / vision transformer models for 3D awareness and planning
- Architect multi-modal fusion approaches (camera, LiDAR, RADAR) to build 3D environments
- Identify where larger end-to-end models should replace more traditional approaches
- Apply advanced ML techniques (Transformers, representation learning, large-scale models) to improve perception performance
- Lead structured experimentation and benchmarking to deliver measurable gains in accuracy and robustness
- Translate research ideas into reliable, scalable ML solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to perception engineers