Senior Perception Engineer
Core
Develop perception software for unmanned aircraft to detect, classify, and track targets from air using EO and thermal imagery on constrained onboard compute.
Role type
Senior individual contributor perception engineer
Builds
Perception stack for unmanned systems
Domain
Defense / Unmanned Aerial Systems / Computer Vision
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
C++, Python, classical perception (correlation, template matching, optical flow), deep learning networks, embedded deployment, sensor integration (EO/IR), evaluation metrics
Preferred skills
Air-to-ground imagery experience, thermal sensor integration, fleet data engine experience
Technologies
Embedded accelerators, EO/thermal sensors
Responsibilities
Develop detection/classification/tracking for small targets in cluttered terrain; Extend perception stack to IR/low-light; Implement onboard target search; Define perception output contracts; Deploy software to embedded compute; Maintain evaluation cases against flight data
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
