Perceptron AI
Staff Software Engineer, Real Time
$200K–$300K
Bellevue, WA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on real-time systems.
About the job
Architects and leads high-performance, low-latency systems for processing video and sensor data and serving AI models.
What you'll do
- Architect real-time pipelines for petabytes of video and sensor data and thousands of concurrent video streams.
- Develop and optimize low-latency inference, distributed model-serving, and real-time analytics systems.
- Create adaptive sampling techniques for multimodal sensory inputs.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on real-time systems.
- Experience building high-volume streaming systems with strict latency requirements.
- Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and distributed system design.
- Understanding of computer vision pipelines and AI model inference optimization; track record of technical leadership and mentoring.
Nice to have
- Experience with edge computing, embedded systems, or sensor fusion.
Pay
$200,000 to $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Rust, C++, Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Docker
AI focus
Builds infrastructure for real-time AI applications, including optimized inference and model serving for video and sensory data.
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