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Perception Engineer - Multimodal & Embodied AI (R6022)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Engineering
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San Diego, CA, San Mateo, CA$165k - $300kFull Time EmployeePosted 2w ago

About the role

Bring promising AI research into autonomous systems that operate in the real world. Develop and deploy multimodal vision, visual foundation models, and embodied AI capabilities for autonomous aircraft and vehicles, combining learned methods with classical perception techniques and enabling edge deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate emerging models and methods against representative sensor data and autonomy needs.
  • Build prototypes and experiments that reveal strengths, limitations, and practical deployment opportunities.
  • Combine learned and classical approaches to improve detection, tracking, geometric vision, or sensor fusion.
  • Optimize and integrate capabilities for edge deployment, contributing Python and C++ software with support from experienced product engineers.
  • Help deliver tested, documented capabilities and stay involved as other teams adopt them.

Qualifications

  • A PhD in computer vision, machine learning (ML/DL), robotics, or a related field, or an equivalent record of advanced research and hands-on engineering.
  • Research depth in an area such as multimodal vision, visual foundation models, video understanding, open-vocabulary perception, or embodied learning.
  • Strong Python skills and experience with PyTorch or a comparable ML framework.
  • A thoughtful approach to experiments, evaluation data, and understanding why models fail.
  • Experience building substantial research software, an interest in developing production-quality C++, and a collaborative approach to solving problems.

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorch (or comparable ML framework)C++Experiment design and evaluation

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package (applicable after 60 days of employment) + temporary benefits package
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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