Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R5421)
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Washington, D.C., United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Staff
- 7+ years
The Hivemind Solutions Perception team develops the next generation of perception capabilities for autonomous systems, focusing on autonomy software, aircraft, and synthetic reality technologies.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Develop the next generation of perception capabilities for autonomous systems
- Design, train, and fine-tune vision-language (VLM) and vision-language-action (VLA) models
- Build scalable machine learning pipelines and evaluation frameworks
- Deploy and optimize ML models using TensorRT and ONNX
- Partner with research, autonomy, and platform teams to translate research into production
Requirements
- Typically requires 7 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree
- 6 years and a Master’s degree
- 4 years with a PhD
- Nice to have: Experience with autonomous systems for defense customers
- Nice to have: Experience with vision-language models, vision-language-action models, and world models