Robotic Software Engineer, Perception

Applied Intuition•Ann Arbor, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Perception Autonomy engineer, you will be pivotal in developing, integrating, and maintaining real-time sensor software solutions deployed across a range of heterogenous autonomous vehicles and different domains (e.g., land, air, sea, and space). You will work with a team to continuously add capability and demonstrate the solution to customers in real-world scenarios on a variety of hardware platforms. Your responsibility will primarily be designing, developing, and rapidly integrating AI/ML sensor algorithms to interface across different platforms, ingest relevant mission information, and support the autonomy team’s mission objectives. This work includes developing autonomous sensor controllers to optimally fuse information between state-of-the-art sensor systems, such as EO, IR, acoustics, radar, and RF.

Requirements

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotic Engineering, Computer Science, Optimization, or equivalent OR 5+ years of relevant experience working with sensor algorithms, hardware, and HIL software integration
Experience with multiple sensor modalities (e.g., EO, IR, lidar, radar, sonar, acoustics, etc.)Core understanding of sensor physics and sensor control parameters
Experience training and deploying ML algorithms (python, pytorch, tensorflow) onto integrated systems (onnx, C++ models)
Familiarity with tracking basics (e.g., Kalman filters) and optimal sensor fusion
Experience working comfortably in Linux and Docker
Prior experience with remote software development, ability to handle and process large datasets, and learn new software and algorithms as needed with little supervision
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Must hold or be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice To Haves

Proficiency with modern C++ development (2011, 2017, 2020, smart pointers, etc.), CMAKE, Python and Bash
PhD in computer science or electrical engineering with AI/ML focus
Experience with robotic swarm or multi-agent systems and optimization
Strong tracking and sensor fusion background
Current U.S. SECRET security clearance

Responsibilities

Develop, integrate, and adapt cutting-edge AI/ML algorithms running on the perception autonomy stack to collect relevant information across a suite of platform sensors
Create interfacing software to autonomously control sensors (e.g., EO, IR, acoustics, radar, and RF)
Collaborate across the sensor, tracking, and autonomy teams to ensure seamless deployment of heterogeneous platform swarms in on-site DoD testing and demonstration events
Deploy containerized solutions to embedded Linux devices, leveraging computer-in-the-loop testing and profiling, and efficiently collecting performance data
Interact with the DoD customer to understand their use cases, requirements, and triage needs during field events to deliver a superior customer experience
Work closely with our existing team to internally triage technical problems and scope
Carefully communicate and document ongoing work to ensure internal flexibility in a fast paced environment as well as clarify progress with external customers
Drive execution of simulation tooling to playback sensors, platforms, and autonomy in post processing field test analysis
Implement improvement plans for future integration efforts based on simulation analysis and customer feedback