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Perception Engineer - Offroad

Applied Intuition· Self-Driving Systems
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Sunnyvale$180k - $250k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Perception engineer on the Mining Autonomy team responsible for perception outcomes for autonomous mining vehicles across customer sites, selecting sensor sets, adapting models to new domains, diagnosing failures, and translating customer needs into technical approaches and KPIs.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement perception systems to enable new product capabilities, leveraging existing model heads and solving new perception tasks.
  • Design the data strategy for a new deployment: what to collect, how much, and how to label it, to get a model production-ready
  • Make build-vs-reuse tradeoffs when standing up new product lines, including output types, KPIs, and collaboration points with the core perception team
  • Triage model and system issues in the field — timestamps, data quality, calibration, and similar — and decide whether to resolve them directly or work with the core platform team to fix them upstream

Qualifications

  • Strong systems-level understanding of perception (and ideally planning/controls) — enough to reason about the full stack, even without owning model training personally
  • A product-owner mindset: motivated by customer success and problem ownership more than by being on the cutting edge of modeling research
  • Experience diagnosing real-world model failures in deployed systems and driving them to resolution, whether hands-on or through cross-team negotiation
  • Comfort working with ambiguous, evolving requirements from customers and translating them into technical specs
  • Familiarity with PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, Docker, Python, some C++
  • Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in any field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • 3+ years of experience in engineering, robotics, or any related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills

Required:perception systemsdata strategybuild-vs-reuse tradeoffs

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and benefits as part of total compensation
  • comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
  • 401k retirement benefits with employer match
  • learning and wellness stipends
  • paid time off
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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