Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Edge AI — Hybrid

Job overview

The Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Edge AI — Hybrid role is hybrid, based in Sunnyvale, CA, with three office days each week. The posted base salary range is $227,000–$300,000 per year. Sonatus develops AI-enabled software-defined vehicle technology, including production-grade edge AI for vehicles. The role leads development of in-vehicle health monitoring and prediction models and the end-to-end machine-learning pipeline.

What you'll do

• Build and train edge AI models for logs, traces, and multimodal data
• integrate machine-learning flows and cloud-based LLM APIs, including synthetic data creation
• develop log clustering and software regression detection algorithms
• design learning models for CAN bus and sensor time-series monitoring
• correlate signal anomalies with system events
• port and optimize PyTorch or TensorFlow models for CPU, GPU, or embedded NPU targets
• apply quantization, pruning, distillation, and memory optimization
• define on-device data filtering strategy
• lead edge ML pipeline architecture and mentor junior engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior staff machine learning engineer

edge ai

sunnyvale ca

sonatus

hybrid

automotive ai

machine learning

pytorch

tensorflow

embedded systems

can bus

$227k–$300k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental and vision plan
• flexible and dependent care expense program
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• unlimited paid time off
• 14+ paid holidays
• wellness allowance
• phone and internet reimbursement
• computer accessory allowance
• complimentary on-site lunches, snacks, and beverages.

Why this role

Hybrid schedule requires three days per week in the Sunnyvale office. Benefits listed include medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), unlimited paid time off, 14+ paid holidays, wellness allowance, and phone and internet reimbursement.

About the employer

Sonatus is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.