Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide.
Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.
Position: AI Researcher for Mobility
Location: Mountain View, CA 94043
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Client is seeking a PhD graduate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline to work on Agentic AI systems for mobility.
- The successful candidate will conduct cutting-edge research at the intersection of large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, multi-agent systems, world models, reinforcement learning, and knowledge distillation, enabling efficient AI deployment across cloud, edge, and embedded platforms for intelligent mobility and autonomous systems
What you'll be doing:
- Develop innovative solutions that advance AI/ML systems for mobility services
- Design and develop multi-agent AI systems capable of collaboration, negotiation, planning, and task execution
- Research LLM-based reasoning and autonomous planning for long-horizon decision making
- Develop teacher student learning frameworks to transfer reasoning, planning, and collaboration capabilities from large foundation models to compact edge models
- Prototyping frameworks and algorithms in Python using tools such as AutoGen, LangChain, or custom orchestration layers
- Publish novel research in top-tier conferences and journals and generate high-impact intellectual property and patents.
Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline with a focus on AI / Machine Learning
- Research experience in Generative AI, Agentic AI, and AI Safety and Alignment
- Research experience with Foundational (LLMs, VLMs, and other large-scale AI architectures), including fine-tuning, evaluation, and application to domain-specific tasks
- Strong programming skills in Python and common libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, Pytorch, etc.)
- Ability to engage in general research activities such as defining problems and issues to be addressed, finding, and using research data, and being able to make recommendations and findings in writing and presentations.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mountain View, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $74.23 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Algorithmsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Automotive Industryunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Computer Programmingunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Embedded Systemsunmatched
- Machine Learningunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Modeling Languagesunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Prototypingunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Reinforcement Learningunmatched
- Relocation Servicesunmatched
- Research Skillsunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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