Perception Engineer - Offroad

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design and implement perception systems to enable new product capabilities, leveraging existing model heads and solving new perception tasks.
• Design the data strategy for a new deployment: what to collect, how much, and how to label it, to get a model production-ready
• Make build-vs-reuse tradeoffs when standing up new product lines, including output types, KPIs, and collaboration points with the core perception team
• Triage model and system issues in the field — timestamps, data quality, calibration, and similar — and decide whether to resolve them directly or work with the core platform team to fix them upstream

Job requirements

• Strong systems-level understanding of perception (and ideally planning/controls) — enough to reason about the full stack, even without owning model training personally
• A product-owner mindset: motivated by customer success and problem ownership more than by being on the cutting edge of modeling research
• Experience diagnosing real-world model failures in deployed systems and driving them to resolution, whether hands-on or through cross-team negotiation
• Comfort working with ambiguous, evolving requirements from customers and translating them into technical specs
• Familiarity with PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, Docker, Python, some C++