Edge Perception Engineer — Real-Time Vision on Hardware

Aurelius Systems, Inc; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health coverage

PTO + sick days

Field test travel

Meals provided

Job summary

Aurelius Systems, Inc is seeking a Perception Engineer to join our software team in San Francisco. You will design, train, and deploy vision and sensor-based models, manage data pipelines, and enable real-time detection and tracking for our laser-based defense system.

The role bridges data science, software, and robotics to deliver high-throughput perception on edge hardware. Collaboration with hardware teams and embedded firmware work are core aspects.

Qualifications

• 2–6+ years in computer vision, sensor fusion, or robotics perception roles.
• Strong C++ with deep ML engineering experience.
• Hands‑on with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and real‑time inference engines (TensorRT, OpenVINO).
• Computer vision, tracking, and detection in real‑time, real‑world conditions.
• Familiarity with ROS2, Docker, and CI/CD for ML pipelines.
• Experience with multi‑sensor calibration and data synchronization.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, validate and fine‑tune ML/DL models for object detection, classification, and segmentation.
• Integrate and fuse data from multi‑modal sensors to produce real‑time ROIs.
• Develop image-processing techniques for edge deployment and motion isolation.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to integrate sensors over GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, CAN, SPI, I²C; develop embedded firmware in C/C++ (or Rust) for MCUs and FPGAs.
• Build scalable data ingestion, labeling, augmentation, and storage pipelines for 100k+ labeled frames.
• Optimize inference frameworks for edge deployment (GPU/FPGA) achieving high throughput.
• Develop dashboards and telemetry for drift analysis and hardware health.
• Mentor junior engineers and author technical docs.

Skills

2–6+ years in CV/sensor fusion/robotic

Strong C++ with ML experience

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Real-time inference engines (TensorRT,

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

ROS2

Docker

CI/CD for ML

VHDL/Verilog

RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr)

Job description

Aurelius Systems, Inc is seeking a Perception Engineer to join our software team in San Francisco. You will design, train, and deploy vision and sensor-based models, manage data pipelines, and enable real-time detection and tracking for our laser-based defense system.

The role bridges data science, software, and robotics to deliver high-throughput perception on edge hardware. Collaboration with hardware teams and embedded firmware work are core aspects.