# Principal Software Engineer, Perception at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Alameda
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $300K–380K
- Posted: 2026-11-12
- Skills: perception
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/7ceb0432-b1c0-4435-acb9-07eabbd3ff7a

## Description

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 

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