Team Lead - Perception

The role

You will own the perception stack end to end, including the technical roadmap, architecture, and core algorithmic decisions. You will hire and grow the perception team while staying hands-on with code and moving systems from recorded data to field trials.

What you will do

• Own the technical roadmap for perception
• Define the architecture of the perception stack
• Make core algorithmic decisions across detection, tracking, segmentation and depth
• Ship object detection and multi-object tracking
• Deliver semantic segmentation and depth estimation
• Build the evaluation and replay loop
• Take models from training to onboard compute and field trials
• Hire the perception team
• Set the bar for engineering quality
• Mentor engineers while staying hands-on in the code

Required qualifications

• Ph.D. with 3+ years of industry experience, or an M.Sc. with 6+ years, in Computer Vision, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Proven record of building perception systems that shipped and worked in the real world, in robotics, autonomous driving, AR/VR, drones or adjacent domains
• Deep expertise across modern perception, including object detection, tracking, segmentation and depth estimation
• Led engineering teams, including hiring, setting technical direction and growing people
• Fluent English
• Eligible to work on defence-related projects
• Able to obtain relevant security clearance where required

Nice to have

• German is a plus
• Publications at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS or similar venues
• Experience building a team or technical function at an early-stage company
• Supervising students or researchers and turning research into product
• Deploying models on real-time, resource-constrained compute such as Jetson-class platforms
• Field experience with UAVs or other robots that get tested outside the lab

Benefits

• Participate in SE3’s growth through our employee participation programme
• High-quality and modern toolset
• Flat hierarchy
• Best-in-class AI tools and agents
• 31 Paid Days Off
• Free membership to gyms, yoga, and wellness through EGYM Wellpass
• 2 company retreats per year
• Professional mentor

Before you apply

• Candidates must be eligible to work on defence-related projects
• Must be able to obtain relevant security clearance where required

About the company

SE3 Labs builds spatial intelligence and autonomy software for unmanned systems. They combine 3D computer vision, state estimation and AI to help autonomous platforms perceive their surroundings.