Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 7+ years
Develop and deploy advanced machine learning models for autonomous systems, integrating perception capabilities into mission-ready platforms.
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
- Build scalable data pipelines, supervised fine‑tuning workflows, and evaluation loops
- Deploy and optimize machine learning models for embedded hardware using ONNX, TensorRT, and hardware‑accelerated inference frameworks
- Apply modern machine learning techniques to solve perception and autonomy problems across autonomous systems
- Translate cutting‑edge research into production‑ready capabilities
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s degree
- PhD
- Nice to have: Developing autonomous systems for defense customers
- Nice to have: Training/finetuning vision‑language models