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Perception & Fusion Engineer

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Perception & Fusion Engineer in USA

  • Applied Intuition
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities

  • Develop, integrate, and adapt AI/ML algorithms across platform sensor suites.
  • Create software to autonomously control EO, IR, acoustics, radar, and RF sensors.
  • Collaborate across sensor, tracking, and autonomy teams for swarm deployments and DoD testing.
  • Deploy containerized solutions to embedded Linux devices and perform testing, profiling, and performance analysis.
  • Interact with DoD customers to understand use cases, requirements, and field-event triage needs.
  • Develop simulation tooling for sensor, platform, and autonomy playback and post-processing analysis.
  • Document work, triage technical issues, and implement integration improvements based on simulation and customer feedback.

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotic Engineering, Computer Science, Optimization, or equivalent, or 5+ years of relevant sensor-algorithm, hardware, and HIL software-integration experience.
  • Experience with multiple sensor modalities and an understanding of sensor physics and control parameters.
  • Experience training and deploying ML algorithms using Python, PyTorch, and TensorFlow onto integrated systems with ONNX and C++ models.
  • Experience with state-of-the-art estimation, tracking, and sensor-fusion algorithms.
  • Comfort working in Linux and Docker and handling large datasets.
  • Ability to develop software remotely, learn new software and algorithms, and work with limited supervision.
  • Modern C++ development, CMake, Python, and Bash proficiency are preferred.
  • Experience with robotic swarms, multi-agent systems, optimization, or strong tracking and sensor-fusion backgrounds is preferred.
  • PhD focused on AI/ML and a current U.S. SECRET security clearance are preferred.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
  • Must be willing to travel for software/hardware integration and demonstrations.

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off are offered where applicable.
  • Full-time employees primarily work in the office five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility; contractor positions are exempt from this expectation.
  • Expected travel is approximately every one to two months for two to five days, or about 10–20%.
  • Relocation assistance to the headquarters in Poway, California may be available.

Salary: $200k - $275k/yr

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, t...

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