Senior Perception Engineer

The role

The Senior Perception Engineer will own the perception architecture and set technical direction for the Sauron home security product. This person will manage accuracy, latency, and cost tradeoffs while working with hardware, cloud, and product teams.

What you will do

• Evolve the pipeline architecture for camera and configuration changes.
• Set the boundary between systems and models.
• Own perception quality end to end including evaluation data and regression harness.
• Extract maximum value from sensors through observation fusion.
• Take the service from runs to trustworthy unattended.
• Close the loop from the field using deployment data.
• Lead the work and the people by setting direction and reviewing hard changes.

Required qualifications

• Around 5+ years building production systems, with several at staff scope.
• Significant professional experience with perception or machine learning for hardware products in a safety-critical field.
• Deep modern C++.
• Real GStreamer or media-pipeline experience, DeepStream or another NVIDIA video stack.
• Applied computer vision you have shipped.
• A clear grasp of linear algebra, optimization, statistics, and algorithms.
• Experience across the deep-learning lifecycle.
• GPU inference in practice.
• Edge instincts.
• Python fluency.
• A generalist mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• NVIDIA Jetson in production
• Previous experience building multi-camera tracking systems
• Video surveillance, VMS, or ONVIF/RTSP integrations
• GPU architecture and CUDA programming
• Familiarity with VLMs and other multi-modal models for semantic scene understanding
• Owning model evaluation

About the company

Sauron is a home security company leveraging AI, sensor technology, and nonlethal deterrence. It was incubated by Kevin Hartz and Atomic.