Autonomy Sensor Systems Architect

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. seeks a Principal Perception Hardware Engineer to own the sensor system architecture for our autonomy platform, guiding sensor choices, placement, and integration on heavy equipment.

You will set the technical direction across hardware, perception, and vehicle teams, running trade studies on coverage, cost, and reliability, and taking sensor suites from prototype to real-world deployment.

Qualifications

• Experience at Principal level owning sensor systems for autonomous vehicles or robots: setting technical direction across teams and defining standards that shape long-term product direction.
• Sensor-suite architecture, requirements definition, and trade studies, including sensor selection, placement, and coverage and occlusion analysis.
• Hands-on experience with cameras and LiDAR.
• Sensor validation, calibration, and characterization: designing test campaigns, defining acceptance criteria, and root-causing failures across the hardware and software boundary.
• A track record of taking a sensor suite from prototype into fielded deployment on real vehicles or robots.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end sensor architecture for the autonomy platform: modality selection, sensor selection, placement, and integration.
• Run trade studies on coverage, occlusion, performance, cost, and reliability; make final sensor-suite trade-off calls.
• Turn product and autonomy needs into sensor and subsystem requirements; select compute platform with embedded/software/perception teams.
• Take the sensor suite from early prototypes through deployment on heavy equipment at real job sites.

Skills

Sensor system architecture

Trade studies

Cross-team leadership

Requirements definition

System-level thinking

Tools

Cameras

LiDAR

Radar

Job description

AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. seeks a Principal Perception Hardware Engineer to own the sensor system architecture for our autonomy platform, guiding sensor choices, placement, and integration on heavy equipment.

You will set the technical direction across hardware, perception, and vehicle teams, running trade studies on coverage, cost, and reliability, and taking sensor suites from prototype to real-world deployment.