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Location: Alameda, California (Hybrid)

Compensation: $300,000–$380,000 Base Salary + Equity

The Opportunity

I'm partnering with a highly innovative, well-funded autonomous systems company developing advanced AI-powered technology for maritime defence, surveillance and intelligence applications.

The business has raised approximately $300M in funding and is backed by leading technology and defence investors. With a fleet of approximately 100 autonomous vessels deployed across the world's oceans, its technology is already operating in demanding real-world environments.

They're looking for a 5JKYBtNdy HR7pZCB8 JVQShBUQ specialising in Perception to take technical ownership of the perception architecture powering their autonomous platforms.

This is a senior individual contributor position offering significant influence over system design, technical strategy and engineering direction, while remaining deeply hands-on with complex perception and autonomy challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the architecture of the perception stack, covering sensor fusion, localisation, object detection and tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation.

• Develop advanced perception algorithms that combine data from multiple sensor modalities, including radar, cameras and infrared systems.

• Build robust systems capable of operating reliably in dynamic, unpredictable environments with limited computational resources.

• Translate cutting-edge research in computer vision, probabilistic estimation and sensor fusion into production-ready software.

• Optimise perception algorithms for real-time performance on embedded and edge computing platforms, including NVIDIA Jetson.

• Work closely with autonomy, navigation and machine learning engineers to ensure perception outputs support safe and reliable autonomous decision-making.

• Establish evaluation methodologies, data labelling strategies and performance benchmarks to improve system accuracy and reliability.

• Provide technical leadership to senior engineers through architectural reviews, mentoring and hands-on problem-solving.

• Help shape the longer-term engineering roadmap and contribute to hiring as the team grows.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant expertise in perception systems, robotics or autonomous technologies.

• Proven experience deploying perception algorithms into production on autonomous vehicles, robotic systems, aerospace platforms or defence technologies.

• Deep understanding of sensor fusion, probabilistic estimation, state estimation and uncertainty modelling.

• Strong experience working with multiple sensor modalities and combining noisy or incomplete data into reliable environmental representations.

• Experience developing real-time perception systems operating under strict latency, compute and reliability constraints.

• Strong understanding of object tracking, localisation, mapping and perception system architecture.

• Experience taking complex research algorithms from prototype through production deployment.

• Ability to make high-level architectural decisions while remaining technically hands-on.

• Strong communication skills and experience providing technical direction to experienced engineering teams.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to join an established and well-capitalised autonomous technology company at a pivotal stage of growth.

You'll have the chance to:

• Own the technical direction of perception systems deployed on real autonomous platforms.

• Solve challenging problems involving sensor fusion, environmental uncertainty and real-time decision-making.

• Work on technology already operating in some of the world's most demanding environments.

• Collaborate directly with hardware, software, autonomy and machine learning teams.

• Influence architectural decisions, engineering standards and the growth of the perception function.

• Work closely with physical autonomous systems developed and manufactured in-house.

• Receive a highly competitive compensation package of $300K–$380K base salary plus equity.