Perception Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement perception systems to enable new product capabilities, leveraging existing model heads and solving new perception tasks.
• Design the data strategy for a new deployment: what to collect, how much, and how to label it, to get a model production-ready.
• Make build-vs-reuse tradeoffs when standing up new product lines, including output types, KPIs, and collaboration points with the core perception team.
• Triage model and system issues in the field — timestamps, data quality, calibration, and similar — and decide whether to resolve them directly or work with the core platform team to fix them upstream.
• Own perception outcomes for autonomous mining vehicles operating across active customer sites.
• Select sensor sets for new vehicles, adapt existing models to new domains and operational design domains.
• Diagnose why a model underperforms on a new site and decide when to fix it yourself versus routing it back to the core team.
• Work at the intersection of perception, planning, controls, and customer requirements, translating mining customer needs into technical approaches and KPIs.
• Collaborate daily with the core autonomy platform team, customer engineering, and BD.
• Help stand up new product lines alongside developing existing ones.

Requirements

• Strong systems-level understanding of perception (and ideally planning/controls) — enough to reason about the full stack, even without owning model training personally.
• A product-owner mindset: motivated by customer success and problem ownership more than by being on the cutting edge of modeling research.
• Experience diagnosing real-world model failures in deployed systems and driving them to resolution, whether hands-on or through cross-team negotiation.
• Comfort working with ambiguous, evolving requirements from customers and translating them into technical specs.
• Familiarity with PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, Docker, Python, some C++.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with internal ML pipeline/orchestration tooling (e.g., Flyte).
• Experience with offroad autonomy.

Compensation

• Base salary range: $180,000 - $255,000 USD annually.
• Total compensation package may also include equity, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.