Engineering Manager - Perception Self-Driving Systems
Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
About Applied Intuition
Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the end-to-end perception model, including its architecture, training, evaluation, and deployment. You will drive a camera-first strategy, investigate performance regressions, optimize models for embedded devices, work with customer programs, and lead and develop perception engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of machine learning or deep learning experience in perception or 3D scene understanding
- 2+ years of perception-team management experience
- Experience training and deploying vision models at scale
- Experience building production camera-only or camera-first perception systems
- Experience deploying perception models to embedded hardware under real-time latency and compute constraints
- Python and C++ software engineering skills
- Experience scaling perception models across geographies, sensor configurations, or vehicle platforms
Responsibilities
- Own perception model architecture, training, evaluation, and deployment
- Drive a camera-first perception strategy
- Lead training, evaluation, iteration, and failure-analysis cycles
- Own model performance across deployment environments and driving conditions
- Manage model quantization and deployment on embedded compute
- Translate customer sensor, operating-domain, and performance requirements into model and data strategies
- Recruit, develop, and technically lead perception engineers
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- 401k retirement plan with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off