Applied Intuition
Robotic Software Engineer, Perception
San Diego, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- You will work with a team to continuously add capability and demonstrate the solution to customers in real-world scenarios on a variety of hardware platforms.
- Deploy containerized solutions to embedded Linux devices, leveraging computer-in-the-loop testing and profiling, and efficiently collecting performance data
- Work closely with our existing team to internally triage technical problems and scope
Responsibilities
- Your responsibility will primarily be designing, developing, and rapidly integrating AI/ML sensor algorithms to interface across different platforms, ingest relevant mission information, and support the autonomy team's mission objectives.
- Develop, integrate, and adapt cutting-edge AI/ML algorithms running on the perception autonomy stack to collect relevant information across a suite of platform sensors
- Drive execution of simulation tooling to playback sensors, platforms, and autonomy in post processing field test analysis
- Implement improvement plans for future integration efforts based on simulation analysis and customer feedback
- Interact with the DoD customer to understand their use cases, requirements, and triage needs during field events to deliver a superior customer experience
Requirements
- Must be willing to travel as projects requires, usually for SW/HW integration and/or demonstrations
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Experience with multiple sensor modalities (e.g., EO, IR, lidar, radar, sonar, acoustics, etc.)Core understanding of sensor physics and sensor control parameters
- Familiarity with tracking basics (e.g., Kalman filters) and optimal sensor fusion
Nice to have
- Proficiency with modern C++ development (2011, 2017, 2020, smart pointers, etc.), CMAKE, Python and Bash
- PhD in computer science or electrical engineering with AI/ML focus
- Experience with robotic swarm or multi-agent systems and optimization
- Strong tracking and sensor fusion background
- Current U.S. SECRET security clearance
- Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located.
- Don't meet every single requirement?
- If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Skills
- About Applied Intuition
- Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI.
- Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft.
- Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo.
- Learn more at applied.co.
Compensation
- at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits.
- Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position.
- For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $140,000 to $220,000 USD annually.
Benefits
- Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.
Company info
- Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet.
- We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week.
- Carefully communicate and document ongoing work to ensure internal flexibility in a fast paced environment as well as clarify progress with external customers
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizen
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