Senior Applied AI / ML Engineer

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are at the cutting edge when it comes to shaping next-gen mobility in areas like automated driving. But it takes real intellectual leadership and expertise to identify and then harness the AI trends and technologies that will transform the way people travel for good. We are an international team of experts shaping the future of intelligent mobility by developing and refining edge GenAI models for the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant. Together, we deliver customer impact through innovative model engineering and robust data pipelines.

Responsibilities

Select and adapt base models for voice assistant and intelligence tasks; Produce clean, reproducible training, finetuning and evaluation pipelines to refine models for the problem at hand; Implement required compression strategies such as quantization, pruning and distillation to enable cost-efficient inference; Collaborate with performance engineers on hardware-aware model variants and performance; Co-own latency and memory KPIs and provide models that meet budget requirements on the target hardware; Document design choices, trade-offs and model cards for audits and compliance

Requirements

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Several years of experience in applied machine learning and model engineering; Proficient in PyTorch and Transformers frameworks; Expertise in model compression, alignment, and fine-tuning of small GenAI and ML models; Skilled in building evaluation suites and performing statistical analysis of model behaviour; Practical knowledge of edge device constraints such as RAM, bandwidth, cache, and cold start; Professional English proficiency; Hands-on mentality; Strong problem-solving skills; Excellent cross-functional communication

Nice to have

German

Benefits

Challenging projects with which we are shaping the mobility of tomorrow together; Wide range of personal and professional development opportunities; Attractive, fair and performance-related remuneration; High level of job security; Annual special payments such as vacation pay, Christmas bonus, and profit sharing; Flexible working hours including 6 weeks annual leave and overtime compensation; Discounted BMW & MINI conditions; Many other benefits at bmw.jobs/benefits