# Principal Software Engineer, Perception at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Alameda
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-10
- Skills: Client Roles
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/61080582-25ae-4395-8cfe-8a55372dad80

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company and set the technical direction for its perception systems. You will help autonomous vehicles interpret complex ocean environments and provide reliable information for safe downstream autonomy.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Define architecture for sensor fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation.

 - Integrate radar, cameras, and other sensor modalities into a coherent, reliable information stream.

 - Partner with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to support safe vehicle behavior.

 - Translate research and advanced algorithms into production systems that meet sensor, compute, latency, and environmental constraints.

 - Guide technical direction through architecture decisions, reviews, hands-on problem solving, mentorship, and hiring.

 - Develop data labeling strategies, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation frameworks.


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

 - At least 8 years of experience in perception or robotics engineering, operating at Staff level or above.

 - Experience owning 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 mathematical and algorithmic foundations in computer vision, machine learning, and related fields.

 - Experience with onboard software and running inference on constrained edge compute under latency limits.

 - Proficiency with C++ and Python; familiarity with Nvidia 

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