perception
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a principal-level engineer on the perception team at a maritime autonomy company, you will set the technical direction for systems that help autonomous vehicles understand complex ocean environments. You will combine hands-on engineering with architecture leadership, partnering closely with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Define the architecture for perception capabilities including sensor fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation.
- Integrate radar, cameras, and other sensor modalities into reliable information streams for downstream autonomy systems.
- Work with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to support safe vehicle behavior in challenging ocean conditions.
- Turn research algorithms into robust production systems that meet edge-compute, latency, sensor, and environmental constraints.
- Guide senior engineers through architecture decisions, technical reviews, and hands-on problem solving.
- Shape data-labeling strategies, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation frameworks, and contribute to hiring and mentorship as the team grows.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 8 years of experience in perception or robotics engineering, with staff-level technical leadership and architecture ownership.
- Direct experience building and deploying production perception systems on autonomous vehicles or robots.
- Deep expertise in sensor fusion, localization, state estimation, tracking, mapping, probabilistic estimation, and uncertainty modeling.
- Strong