Perception Engineer - Offroad

The role

You will own perception outcomes for autonomous mining vehicles operating at customer sites. You will design perception systems, manage data strategies, and triage model issues in the field.

What you will do

• Design and implement perception systems to enable new product capabilities
• Design the data strategy for new deployments including collection and labeling
• Make build-vs-reuse tradeoffs for new product lines
• Triage model and system issues in the field
• Select sensor sets for new vehicles
• Adapt existing models to new domains and operational design domains
• Translate customer needs into technical approaches and KPIs
• Collaborate with core autonomy platform, customer engineering, and BD teams

Required qualifications

• Strong systems-level understanding of perception
• Product-owner mindset
• Experience diagnosing real-world model failures in deployed systems
• Comfort working with ambiguous, evolving requirements from customers
• Familiarity with PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, Docker, Python, some C++
• Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in any field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 3+ years of experience in engineering, robotics, or any related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Nice to have

• Experience with internal ML pipeline/orchestration tooling (e.g., Flyte)
• Experience with offroad autonomy

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
• 401k retirement benefits with employer match
• Learning and wellness stipends
• Paid time off

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.