Principal Software Engineer, Perception
About The Position
Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company and set technical direction for systems that help autonomous vehicles operate safely in complex ocean environments. Lead development of production perception capabilities, including sensor fusion, localization, tracking, and uncertainty estimation. Define the perception stack architecture and technical direction; integrate radar, cameras, and other sensor modalities into reliable information streams for downstream autonomy; and partner with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to support safe vehicle behavior. Translate research and algorithms into robust production software that meets edge-compute, latency, sensor, and environmental constraints. Lead architecture decisions, technical reviews, and hands-on problem solving while mentoring senior and staff engineers. Guide data labeling, ground-truth dataset development, and evaluation frameworks. Contribute technical leadership to hiring and help grow the perception team.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in perception or robotics engineering, with staff-level technical leadership or equivalent experience.
- Direct ownership of production perception systems on autonomous vehicles or robots.
- Deep expertise in sensor fusion, localization, state estimation, tracking, mapping, probabilistic estimation, and uncertainty modeling.
- Strong foundations in computer vision, machine learning, and related mathematics.
- Experience with onboard software and deploying inference workloads on constrained edge compute, including latency-sensitive systems.
- Proficiency with C++ and Python.
- Must be a US citizen or Green Card holder; visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Nvidia Jetson, radar, camera systems, and real-time or minimal Linux environments.
- Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace, or defense.
- Maritime autonomy experience.
- Experience leading perception architecture across platform generations.
Responsibilities
- Define architecture and technical direction for the perception stack, including sensor fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation.
- Integrate radar, cameras, and other sensor modalities into reliable information streams for downstream autonomy.
- Partner with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to support safe vehicle behavior.
- Translate research and algorithms into robust production software that meets edge-compute, latency, sensor, and environmental constraints.
- Lead architecture decisions, technical reviews, and hands-on problem solving.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers.
- Guide data labeling, ground-truth dataset development, and evaluation frameworks.
- Contribute technical leadership to hiring and help grow the perception team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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