There’s a war for skill in Pittsburgh’s flourishing autonomous automobile market.
It began with Uber and now consists Argo AI, which is majorly owned by Ford, and a start-up called Aurora Innovation. With a lot hiring, it’s a good time to be at the city’s valued academic institution, Carnegie Mellon University.
Andrew Moore, the dean of Carnegie Mellon’s computer science school, has stated that computer vision graduates right from college are commanding pay plans of $200,000, which he referred as “unheard of for any role till recently.”
Along with Uber, Argo and Aurora, Moore stated there’s a fourth self-driving vehicle company in Pittsburgh that’s not yet talking publicly.
“One of the results is this dramatic wage increase for anybody with robotics engineering abilities,” stated Moore, whose background is in artifical intelligence and robotics. “It does feel quite like a gold rush town at the moment.”
Moore, who formerly spent 8 years at Google and ran the company’s Pittsburgh workplace, approximates that there are 1,000 to 2,000 people in the city dealing with autonomous driving. Pittsburgh has become the de facto capital for self-driving vehicle development, due to Carnegie Mellon’s top-ranked robotics program and the city’s openness to partnering with the companies on risky ventures.
In spite of all Uber’s legal and management difficulties, the company is hiring in Pittsburgh. Uber presently has 60 job openings there in its advanced technologies group, which houses the self-driving engineers.
“There is a healthy amount of poaching between the self-driving automobile companies in Pittsburgh,” Moore stated. “Overall, it’s really good for the city since there are constantly new individuals moving in.”
