Perception Engineer

About the role

What You’ll Do:

- Develop computer vision and machine learning solutions for autonomous vehicle perception systems for object and signal recognition (ex. emergency vehicles, school buses, authority figures, and traffic-light states).

- Design, develop, implement and debug features in production perception software using Python and C++.

- Integrate perception algorithms and trained machine learning models with on-car software.

- Architect software workflows for preparing data from multiple sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR) and training machine learning models.

- Design evaluation processes and custom testing tools to measure prediction consistency, processing speed, and overall system safety.

- Connect/drive project-level impact through technology solutions.

- Design, develop, implement, and fix features in codebase.

- Formulate problems, architect solutions, and design processes.

- Train and deploy new AI models.

- Analyze model performance and identify improvements.

- Research/evaluate emerging technologies to enhance AI models.

- Prototype, evaluate, implement, and iterate on solutions.

Boston, MA headquarters; telecommuting permitted.

What You Bring:

- Requires Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field

- Two years of industry experience in automotive industry software development.

- Experience must include:

- production-level software development,

- model deployment,

- integration and validation for robotics,

- testing/debugging algorithms,

- machine learning applications,

- Python,

- C++,

- PyTorch,

- GPU training,

- acceleration and inference optimization,

- TensorRT/CUDA,

- CI/CD pipelines, and

- Git.

This position is eligible for employee referral program.

Salary Range: $165,000 to $197,698 per year

Ref Job No. N322

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