Edge Perception Engineer — Real-Time Counter-Drone Vision

9 Mothers Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful Early Equity

Direct Roadmap Influence

Mission-Critical Work

The Builder's Playground

100% Employer-Paid Premiums

Unlimited PTO

Zero Red Tape

Austin-Based Culture

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

9 Mothers Corporation in Austin, TX is seeking a Perception Engineer to own the computer vision and ML stack powering target detection, classification, and tracking in our counter-sUAS systems. The Perception Lead is responsible for research, development, and deployment of the perception pipeline that enables EDDA to engage aerial threats in real time.

This is a senior individual contributor position. The role collaborates with hardware, data, and field testing teams to ensure low-latency,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in computer vision or machine learning, including production deployment on edge hardware.
• Demonstrated experience shipping a detection or tracking system under real-world latency, small-object, or adversarial constraints.
• Strong engineering skills beyond modeling, including experience with PyTorch or JAX through to deployed, optimized inference.
• Proficiency in Python for model development and C++ or Rust for deployed inference.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to pass a background check.

Responsibilities

• Own the visual perception pipeline end-to-end, including detection, classification, and tracking of sUAS targets in real time.
• Design and train machine learning models that meet latency and accuracy requirements for edge deployment on Jetson-class hardware.
• Architect and maintain the dataset and simulation pipeline, including data collection, labeling, curation, augmentation, synthetic data generation, and closed-loop retraining based on field performance.
• Optimize inference performance on Jetson platforms, including model pruning, quantization, TensorRT integration, and custom kernel development as required.
• Establish the model evaluation framework and metrics used to assess perception performance under operational conditions.
• Deliver target state information (position, velocity, identity, uncertainty) to the controls subsystem.
• Collaborate with the hardware team on camera, optics, and sensor selection.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

PyTorch

JAX

Edge deployment

Tools

TensorRT

Jetson

Job description

9 Mothers Corporation in Austin, TX is seeking a Perception Engineer to own the computer vision and ML stack powering target detection, classification, and tracking in our counter-sUAS systems. The Perception Lead is responsible for research, development, and deployment of the perception pipeline that enables EDDA to engage aerial threats in real time.

This is a senior individual contributor position. The role collaborates with hardware, data, and field testing teams to ensure low-latency,