Principal Perception Hardware Engineer

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end sensor architecture for the autonomy platform: modality selection, sensor
• Run trade studies on coverage, occlusion, performance, cost, and reliability, and make the final
• Turn product, business, customer and autonomy needs into sensor and subsystem requirements.
• Select the compute platform together with the embedded, software, and perception teams.
• Design test campaigns and define acceptance criteria for sensors and the full sensing system.
• Build calibration and characterization processes that hold up on real machines in the field.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience at Principal level owning sensor systems for autonomous vehicles or robots: setting
• Sensor-suite architecture, requirements definition, and trade studies, including sensor selection
• Hands-on experience with cameras and LiDAR.
• Sensor validation, calibration, and characterization: designing test campaigns, defining acceptance
• A track record of taking a sensor suite from prototype into fielded deployment on real vehicles or
• Experience selecting compute platforms in partnership with embedded, software, and perception teams.

🎁 Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $200,000-$250,000