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Senior Software Engineer, Perception (R5420)

Washington, DC💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and deploy advanced machine learning models (vision, vision-language, vision-language-action) to solve perception challenges for autonomous systems.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (perception)

Builds

Production-ready perception capabilities for autonomous platforms

Domain

Defense technology, autonomous systems, computer vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

machine learning fundamentals, training and deploying ML models for computer vision in production, data pipeline development, model optimization for embedded hardware, evaluation framework design, cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

ONNX, TensorRT, hardware-accelerated inference frameworks

Responsibilities

Design, train, fine-tune, and maintain state-of-the-art vision and vision-language models; Build scalable data pipelines and supervised fine-tuning workflows; Deploy and optimize ML models for embedded hardware; Apply ML techniques to solve perception problems in complex environments; Translate research into production-ready capabilities; Develop benchmarks and testing methodologies; Improve training infrastructure and deployment workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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