Founding Perception Engineer ($250k-380k + Equity) at Crewline AI

Jack & Jill/External ATS • San Francisco, CA

7d • $250,000 - $380,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Develop the core perception stack for autonomous heavy machinery, transforming raw sensor data into spatial awareness. This founding role involves architecting robust 3D perception pipelines, fusing data from LiDARs, cameras, and GNSS/IMUs to power safety, teleoperation, and autonomy assist features for real-world construction sites.

Requirements

• A hacker obsessed with rapid iteration, prioritizing pragmatic, reliable algorithms before scaling to advanced learning-based methods.
• Former entrepreneur or someone with extreme agency, demonstrated by building projects from scratch, successful or failed.
• Experience developing and evaluating robust 3D perception systems, ideally for real-world robotic applications.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build robust 3D perception pipelines for teleoperated and semi-autonomous heavy machinery, fusing multi-modal sensor data.
• Develop real-time object detection, classification, and tracking systems to enhance operator situational awareness and enable autonomy.
• Optimize algorithms for real-time execution on embedded compute platforms like NVIDIA Jetson Orin, ensuring low latency and stability in challenging environments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed