Senior Perception Engineer
Core
Design, train, deploy, and optimize machine learning models for perception in autonomous systems, including object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, and 3D perception.
Role type
Senior IC perception engineer (autonomous systems)
Builds
Multimodal and multi-sensor fusion systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, and industrial automation
Domain
Autonomous systems, robotics, computer vision, sensor fusion
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, C++, object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, scene understanding, 3D perception, geometric reasoning, multi-sensor fusion (camera, LiDAR, radar, IMU), temporal modeling, data pipeline development, model optimization for latency/compute/memory/power, real-time system deployment, large-scale dataset handling, long-tail failure diagnosis
Preferred skills
Publications or significant research contributions in computer vision, machine learning, robotics
Technologies
Python, C++, cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMU
Responsibilities
Develop algorithms for perception tasks; build multimodal and multi-sensor fusion systems; create data, training, and evaluation pipelines; optimize perception systems for platform constraints; investigate deployed-system failures and iterate on models; collaborate with cross-functional teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
