Director, Perception

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a group of managers and engineers, responsible for the team's roadmap, productivity, execution, and impact.
• Set the vision for, grow, and lead a team of talented software engineers in planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, providing technical leadership.
• Collaborate with engineers and leaders across teams to brainstorm and accelerate perception capabilities development.
• Provide clear summaries, progress, and recommendations to executive leadership.
• Establish best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
• Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
• 8+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 40+.
• 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning, and related technologies.
• Strong leadership skills for recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical teams.
• Recent experience implementing vision & perception algorithms.
• Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.
• Experience with recent AI approaches including E2E models for perception, transformers, and sparse networks.
• Experience with sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling across multiple modalities.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related fields.

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots.
• Hands-on experience deploying real products or platforms into the real world.
• Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or safety-critical systems.
• Knowledge of GPU and/or TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.).