CareerPlan

Senior Autonomy Engineer, Perception

San Francisco Bay Area, United StatesFull-time$180k2026-07-09 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Building state estimation and sensor fusion systems for autonomous ground transportation using AI models and multi-modal data.

Role type

Senior IC autonomy perception engineer

Builds

Perception stack for commercial trucking and public sector autonomous vehicles

Domain

Autonomous driving / Robotics / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

state estimation, sensor fusion, multi-object tracking, deep learning, C++, Kalman filtering, particle filtering, learned scene estimation, behavior prediction, high-reliability software engineering

Preferred skills

building infrastructure from scratch, scientific evaluation, cross-disciplinary system understanding

Technologies

C++, camera, radar, lidar, thermal, IMU

Responsibilities

Lead efforts to advance learned scene estimation solutions; fuse information from multiple modalities to improve perception performance; improve multi-target tracking performance; develop novel algorithms to incorporate noisy measurements; develop tooling, metrics, and visualization to advance sensor fusion performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC