Senior Software Engineer, Perception (R5420)
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 2+ years
The Hivemind Solutions Perception team develops the next generation of perception capabilities for autonomous systems by combining state-of-the-art machine learning with the proven foundations of computer vision.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Design, train, fine-tune, and maintain state-of-the-art vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models that improve perception and decision-making for autonomous systems.
- Build scalable data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) workflows, and evaluation loops that continuously improve model performance on mission-relevant tasks.
- Deploy and optimize machine learning models for embedded hardware using technologies such as ONNX, TensorRT, and hardware-accelerated inference frameworks.
- Apply modern machine learning techniques to solve challenging perception and autonomy problems across aerial and other autonomous systems operating in complex, real-world environments.
- Translate cutting-edge machine learning research into production-ready capabilities by balancing model performance, robustness, computational efficiency, and operational reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s degree
- PhD
- Nice to have: autonomous systems for defense customers
- Nice to have: vision-language models