Senior Engineer, Research-to-Product Perception (R6022)
Core
Develop perception capabilities (object detection, tracking, sensor fusion) for autonomous systems across air, maritime, and ground domains, bridging research prototypes to production SDKs.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Research-to-Product Perception
Builds
Hivemind SDK with reusable, configurable perception capabilities for autonomous systems
Domain
Defense technology, Autonomous systems, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Computer vision, Machine learning (ML/DL), Robotics, Python, PyTorch, Experimental design, Model evaluation, C++ (production quality)
Preferred skills
Multimodal vision, Visual foundation models, Video understanding, Open-vocabulary perception, Embodied learning, Robotics hardware, Edge inference, Model optimization (ONNX, TensorRT, CUDA)
Responsibilities
Evaluate emerging models against sensor data and autonomy needs; Build prototypes to reveal strengths and deployment opportunities; Combine learned and classical approaches for detection/tracking/fusion; Optimize and integrate capabilities for edge deployment; Deliver tested, documented capabilities for team adoption (via careerplan.io/jobs/8c213d66-730b-4604-91b1-97dca42a59e3-senior-engineer-research-to-product-perception-r6022-at-shieldai)
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with research depth
