Principal Software Engineer, Perception

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.

• 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.

Hybrid role based in Alameda, United States.

• 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 Jetson, radar, camera systems, SLAM, simulation, and real-time or embedded environments.

• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace, or defense; maritime autonomy and leading perception architecture across platform generations are beneficial.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available.

Base salary: $300,000 to $380,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.