Director of Autonomy Perception & Vision

SupportFinity™; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Health Savings & Flexible Spending

Retirement benefits

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation

Wellness program

Job summary

May Mobility, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, seeks a Director of Perception to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the Autonomy Perception team. You will advance May's MPDM architecture and ensure high-quality sensor data drives core autonomy software.

You will manage engineering managers and engineers, partner with Vehicle, Product, and Operations, define KPIs, hire talent, and steer cross-functional initiatives to deploy reliable perception capabilities in commercial deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• PhD or masters degree in a relevant, highly technical field (e.g. robotics, computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, physics)
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex autonomy problems as principal investigator, staff or director (or equivalent)
• 7+ years of software-focused engineering experience solving challenging robotics problems in mission critical software and/or robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Be a technical thought leader to champion May Mobility's mission, vision, values and priorities and develop autonomy strategy with executives and engineering leaders.
• Work cross-functionally with Vehicle Engineering, Product, and Operations to deploy autonomy perception solutions.
• Deliver advances to perception technology including improvements to detection, classification, tracking and prediction.

Skills

Autonomy perception leadership

Multi-sensor fusion

Object detection/tracking

System architecture

Team leadership

Education

PhD or Master in robotics/CS/EE/related

Tools

MPDM framework

Sensor processing pipelines

Job description

May Mobility, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, seeks a Director of Perception to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the Autonomy Perception team. You will advance May's MPDM architecture and ensure high-quality sensor data drives core autonomy software.

You will manage engineering managers and engineers, partner with Vehicle, Product, and Operations, define KPIs, hire talent, and steer cross-functional initiatives to deploy reliable perception capabilities in commercial deployments.