Director, Perception
Core
Leading the perception stack to build a world-class 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data for autonomous vehicles in dense urban environments.
Role type
Director of Perception (Senior IC with management)
Builds
Dynamic objects perception system encompassing vision, lidar, radar, and long-wave IR across segmentation, detection, classification, fusion, and tracking pipelines.
Domain
Autonomous driving, computer vision, sensor fusion
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Computer vision systems, AI software stacks, team leadership (40+), computer vision, machine learning, vision & perception algorithms, autonomy solutions, E2E models, transformers, sparse networks, sensor fusion, uncertainty modeling
Preferred skills
Autonomous vehicle perception, real-world product deployment, risk/safety-critical system validation, GPU/TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT)
Technologies
Vision, lidar, radar, long-wave IR, segmentation, detection, classification, fusion, tracking, E2E models, transformers, sparse networks, CUDA, TensorRT
Responsibilities
Build and lead a group of managers and engineers responsible for roadmap, productivity, and execution; Set vision and provide technical leadership for complex technical projects; Collaborate across teams to accelerate perception capabilities; Provide summaries and recommendations to executive leadership; Establish best practices for data-driven decision-making; Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise
