Senior Engineering Manager, Perception
$259,649–$305,469 year
HybridAlameda, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead and scale an elite engineering team, providing high-impact technical mentorship while remaining hands-on with core architecture, code reviews, and critical implementations. Be accountable for the delivery, reliability, and edge performance of real-time perception software running on uncrewed platforms during months-long ocean deployments. Partner with Autonomy, Machine Learning, Systems, and Hardware teams to align on roadmaps and ensure seamless sensor-to-actuation integration. Drive day-to-day execution using C++ and agile methodologies to maintain high-velocity development cycles, proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing mitigations to optimize high-performance compute on embedded platforms like NVIDIA Jetson. Establish robust validation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and simulation frameworks leveraging large-scale maritime datasets to guarantee deterministic safety and performance.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive software experience in robotics, drones, or autonomous driving
- at least 2+ years of direct engineering management or technical leadership experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Exceptional proficiency in modern C++ (14/17/20)
- production-grade software development for Linux embedded environments
- Deep understanding of perception fundamentals, including multi-object tracking, 3D computer vision, multi-sensor calibration, or deep learning deployment at the edge
- Proven experience working with complex maritime sensor stacks, integrating and fusing raw data from long-range cameras, marine Radar, LiDAR, and AIS electronics
- Experience building ingestion pipelines, auto-labeling frameworks, or regression workflows optimized for petabyte-scale, edge-case-heavy dataset exploration
- Ability to dive into technical codebases to unblock developers
- maintaining a highly collaborative, inclusive, and mission-driven engineering culture
- hybrid schedule, including traveling to and working out of our Alameda waterfront headquarters 3 days per week
- standing, bending, and light handling of test payloads or sensors up to 30 lbs
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