AI Perception Lead Engineer
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
AI / Perception Lead Engineer
Location:
New York City NY (Onsite)
Employment Type:
Full-time
Compensation:
$300000 $650000 annually
Overview
A fast-growing early-stage defense technology organization is seeking an AI / Perception Lead Engineer to own and deliver the perception layer of an advanced autonomy stack.
This is a high-impact hands-on role focused on building real-time computer vision and sensor fusion systems that operate reliably on constrained edge hardware in dynamic environments. This is not a research-only position the role spans concept prototype field deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy real-time object detection classification and tracking systems.
- Optimize machine learning models for edge deployment (Jetson ARM accelerators).
- Build multi-sensor perception pipelines (camera LiDAR etc.).
- Improve system robustness under real-world conditions (lighting motion blur occlusion).
- Integrate perception outputs into downstream autonomy systems.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience with modern computer vision models (YOLO transformers tracking systems).
- Experience training fine-tuning and deploying models.
- Experience with edge inference optimization (TensorRT ONNX etc.).
- Strong programming skills in Python and C (or Rust).
- Experience working with real-time video pipelines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with hardware accelerators (e.g. Hailo or similar).
- Experience with multi-object tracking (ByteTrack DeepSORT).
- Experience with dataset pipelines (e.g. Roboflow or similar).
- Experience deploying models on embedded systems.
Additional Requirements
- Must meet ITAR requirements (U.S. Citizen Green Card holder or eligible status).
- Onsite work required in NYC.
