Perception Engineer (Data)

Pronto • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Pronto is seeking an additional engineer to join our perception team. Pronto’s autonomous trucks run on an advanced perception stack that uses cameras and other sensors to choose drivable paths, avoid obstacles, and maintain safety at all times. We are looking for someone who is comfortable working with state-of-the-art techniques as well as implementing and maintaining production-stable applications of new features. This role has ample opportunities for growth.

Requirements

• Proficient with python, git, linux, PyTorch
• Familiarity with common computer vision libraries and techniques including camera calibration and camera projections
• Able to create and debug software systems: building maintainable code with good diagnostics that scale
• Excellent at handling ambiguous or undefined problems
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively in a multidisciplinary team and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong portfolio of projects related to perception

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years professional experience writing software relevant to perception

Responsibilities

• Stress testing entire perception system to find operating limits
• Improving camera calibration techniques
• Building tooling to iteratively improve our data pipeline through active learning
• Creating tooling to extract data from vehicle logs
• Testing applications for neural nets on autonomous vehicles
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Implementing camera / lidar world space to image space transformations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees