Perception Engineer

Saildrone • Alameda, CA

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About The Position

Saildrone's autonomous vehicles rely on perception systems to understand their surroundings and estimate their position and motion. As a Perception Engineer, you will develop and deploy the perception and estimation capabilities that turn raw sensor data into rich, accurate inputs that power downstream autonomy and product capabilities. You will work across perception algorithms, sensor fusion, production C++, and real-world vehicle testing.

Requirements

• Hands-on C++ development skills
• Experience developing perception, computer vision, localization, state estimation, sensor fusion, or related robotics systems.
• Strong understanding of robotics and the mathematics underlying perception and estimation.
• Experience working with real sensor data and physical systems.
• Experience integrating, configuring, and calibrating sensor systems.
• Experience debugging and benchmarking integrated robotics or autonomous systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with probabilistic state estimation, Kalman filtering, SLAM, visual odometry, or related techniques.
• Experience deploying autonomous systems in the field.
• Python experience for analysis, experimentation, or tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop perception, localization, state-estimation, multi object tracking, and sensor-fusion algorithms for autonomous vehicles.
• Process camera, radar, and similar sensor data to produce reliable estimates of the vehicle and its environment.
• Implement, test, and optimize production perception software in C++.
• Analyze real-world data and vehicle behavior to diagnose failures and improve robustness.
• Integrate perception capabilities with the broader autonomy stack and validate them on real vehicles.
• Contribute to perception architecture and system design.

Benefits

• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual plus a robust annual holiday schedule and paid sick leave
• Premium, multi-tier Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with significant company contributions for employees and dependents
• Equity grants
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan with flexible pre-tax and Roth payroll contribution options
• Annual professional development reimbursement program
• Relocation assistance for eligible roles

What This Job Offers

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