Senior, ML Engineer - VLM

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet The Team

Torc is marching toward its AV 3.0 strategy, where end-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models perceive, reason, and act directly from sensor data. High-quality, semantically rich training data is the single biggest lever for that strategy, and this team owns it.

Sitting within Offline Perception, this team turns petabytes of logged multi-modal fleet data (images, kinematics) into VLM/VLA-ready datasets: geometric annotations, scenario-level semantic descriptions, action- and trajectory-grounded labels, and reasoning traces that explain why a maneuver was taken. We run a continuous data flywheel — mine long-tail and failure cases, auto-label at scale, validate quality, and feed curated datasets directly into Torc’s end-to-end VLM/VLA model development. You will own the dataset layer that those models learn from.

What You’ll Do

• Own the offline dataset pipeline — design, implement, test, and deploy Cloud-based pipelines that convert logged multi-sensor data into VLM/VLA training datasets, spanning geometric labels (3D/2D detection, tracking, segmentation, depth) through semantic, scenario-level, and action/trajectory-grounded annotations.
• Build VLM-assisted auto-labeling — develop open-vocabulary detection, dense captioning, semantic enrichment, a