Autonomy & Perception Software Engineer (R5911)

Team: Engineering

Location: San Diego, California, San Mateo, California, Washington, D.C., Orlando, Florida

Commitment: Full Time Employee

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

Senior Engineer: $165,000-$250,000

Staff Engineer: $200,000-$300,000

Job Description:

What you'll do:

• Develop perception algorithms and production software in modern C++. 

• Own features from design and implementation through integration, testing, and delivery. 

• Investigate system behavior using sensor data, simulation, logs, and focused experiments. 

• Collaborate across teams to turn research and customer-driven work into reusable product capabilities. 

• Contribute to technical direction, review designs and code, and mentor other engineers. 

Required qualifications:

• Experience delivering production C++ software for perception, robotics, autonomy, or a related technical field. 

• Strong technical depth in at least one relevant area: detection, tracking, computer vision, image processing, estimation (e.g. Kalman Filtering), or sensor fusion. 

• An ability to debug complex systems and build software that others can understand, test, and maintain. 

• Comfort using Python or similar tools for experimentation and data analysis. 

• Sound technical judgment and a collaborative approach to solving problems. 

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with  

  • real sensors (EO/IR, Radar, LiDAR, IMU) 

  • embedded or GPU deployment 

  • resource-constrained compute environments 

This role can be based in San Diego, San Mateo, Washington, DC, or Orlando, with a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office.