Autonomy Engineer - Perception

The role

You will design, build, and validate perception systems for intelligent autonomous vehicles. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to explore new concepts through rapid, iterative prototyping.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain autonomy software for computer vision and autonomy tasks, including scene reconstruction, object detection, and navigation.
• Integrate systems into real-world platforms, bridging research and production.
• Stay current on research and apply state-of-the-art techniques in autonomy and perception.

Required qualifications

• Master’s or PhD degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent working experience.
• Proficiency in C/C++ with experience shipping production-grade software.
• Experience building SLAM, perception, and sensor fusion systems.
• Strong foundation in both 2D and 3D computer vision and perception tasks.
• Hands-on experience working with real sensor data, particularly in challenging environments, such as night, sea, or underground.
• Experience with recent developments in ML for computer vision, including ViT and other ML architectures for tasks like segmentation, object detection, classification etc.
• Comfortable developing and reasoning about multi-threaded real-time systems.

Nice to have

• Experience working with embedded robotics platforms, such as NVIDIA Jetson.
• Experience optimizing and accelerating ML models for deployment, specifically using techniques like quantization, distillation, or architectural refinement.
• Familiarity with dense scene reconstruction, like occupancy grids, NeRF, or Gaussian splatting.
• Familiarity with perception model performance evaluation and evaluation pipelines.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Generous benefits package

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• May be subject to a government security clearance process.

About the company

Tycho.AI is a fast-growing, dual-use technology company building AI and autonomy solutions for unmanned systems. Spun out of MIT and backed by DoD contracts, they focus on national security and commercial innovation.