Senior Manager, Perception (R5914)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead teams across autonomy, integration, and testing by aligning technical efforts, resolving cross-functional challenges, and driving mission-focused execution.
• Write production quality software in C++
• Produce an Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) system to enable reliable autonomy in GNSS-degraded or denied environments
• Extend and specialize Shield AI’s state-of-the-art state estimation framework for new sensors, platforms, and missions
• Write test code to validate your software with simulated and real-world data
• Collaborate with hardware and test teams to validate algorithms/code on aerial platforms
• Write analyzers to ingest data and produce statistics to validate code quality
• Enhance sensor models within a high-fidelity simulation environment

Job requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and/or similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to develop, benchmark, debug, and deploy software-based algorithms
• Demonstrated problem solving skills by applying a scientific approach
• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 9 years and a Master’s degree; or 8 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years managing technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience integrating and working with sensor payloads in the DoD space
• Proficient with sensor fusion for noisy high-bandwidth exteroceptive sensors on compute-constrained systems
• A solid foundation in theory related to state estimation, object detection, data association, probabilistic robotics, and signal processing.