Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R4985)

What you'll do

• Design, train, fine-tune, and maintain vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models; build data pipelines, training workflows, and evaluation frameworks.
• Deploy and optimize models on embedded hardware, translating machine-learning research into reliable operational capabilities.
• Collaborate across perception, autonomy, platform, and software teams to integrate and improve autonomous-system capabilities.

What they ask for

• Mastery of machine-learning fundamentals; production experience training and deploying computer-vision models; strong understanding of 3D vision.
• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow; demonstrated expertise with TensorRT and ONNX; proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
• At least 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 9 years and a Master’s degree; or 7 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.

Nice to have

• Experience developing autonomous systems for defense customers or training/fine-tuning vision-language, vision-language-action, or world models.
• Open-source contributions or publications in leading computer-vision and robotics venues.

Tools

PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT, ONNX, C++, Python

AI focus

Develops vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models for autonomous-system perception and decision-making, including training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment.