Perception Engineer - Multimodal & Embodied AI (R6022)
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- San Diego, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
Engineer who turns AI research into autonomous system capabilities for aircraft and vehicles.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Evaluate emerging models and methods against representative sensor data and autonomy needs.
- Build prototypes and experiments that reveal strengths, limitations, and practical deployment opportunities.
- Combine learned and classical approaches to improve detection, tracking, geometric vision, or sensor fusion.
- Optimize and integrate capabilities for edge deployment, contributing Python and C++ software with support from experienced product engineers.
- Help deliver tested, documented capabilities and stay involved as other teams adopt them.
Requirements
- PhD in computer vision, machine learning, robotics, or a related field
- Nice to have: bringing a research prototype into sustained use
- Nice to have: robotics
- Nice to have: real sensors
- Nice to have: temporal data