Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Scene Understanding

As software engineer for perception for self-driving trucks, you will work on developing cutting-edge software that takes data from a multitude of sensors such as cameras, radars and lidars, and converts them into actionable information for downstream components like prediction and planning.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, evaluate, and maintain real-time scene understanding algorithms.
• Evaluate system performance and find areas of improvement.
• Build infrastructure and evaluation tools to support experimentation and deployment of new features.
• Research state of the art techniques in robotics and self-driving technology.

Required Skills:

• MS in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• Extensive experience in modern C++ and Python.
• Experience in processing sensor data (LiDAR, radar, camera, etc.) and using vision libraries like OpenCV and PCL.
• Strong understanding of linear algebra and optimization techniques.
• Knowledge of filtering and state estimation methods (KF, EKF, UKF, etc.).Knowledge of camera models and multi-view geometry.
• Familiarity with localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles.

Preferred Skills:

• PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• Familiarity with ML/DL.
• Experience building data processing and evaluation tools.
• Experience writing production level code.
• Experience with CUDA programming.

Salary Range:

• $150,000 - 190,000 a year

Our compensations (cash and equity) are determined based on the position, your location, qualifications, and experience.