Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R4985)
Core
Develop and deploy advanced machine learning models (vision, vision-language, vision-language-action) to enable autonomous systems to understand, reason about, and interact with their environment for defense customers.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (IC)
Builds
Production-ready perception capabilities for autonomous aerial and ground systems
Domain
Defense technology, Autonomous Systems, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning fundamentals, Computer vision, Model training and deployment, Data pipeline engineering, Model evaluation and validation, Embedded hardware optimization, Cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Experience with vision-language models (VLM), Vision-language-action models (VLA), Supervised fine-tuning (SFT), ONNX, TensorRT
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 evaluation loops; Deploy and optimize ML models for embedded hardware; Translate cutting-edge research into production-ready capabilities; Develop benchmarks and testing methodologies; Improve training infrastructure and deployment workflows
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC
