Real-Time Perception Engineer: Edge AI for Autonomy

Wild West Systems, Inc.; Leander (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wild West Systems seeks an AI / Perception Engineer to build and deliver the perception layer of our autonomy stack. You will develop real-time computer vision and sensor-fusion systems that run on constrained edge hardware in dynamic environments.

This role takes perception from concept to field deployment, collaborating across software and hardware teams to ensure robust performance on our on-site Leander, Texas, facility. In-person work is required at this time.

Qualifications

• Expertise in state-of-the-art CV models (YOLO, transformers) and multi-object tracking.
• Experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying perception models.
• Proficiency in edge inference optimization (TensorRT, ONNX).
• Strong Python and C++ (or Rust) programming skills.
• Experience building real-time video pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy real-time perception systems for edge devices.
• Build multi-sensor perception pipelines (camera, lidar) and integrate with autonomy stack.
• Optimize models for constrained hardware (Hailo, Jetson, ARM).
• Improve robustness under real-world conditions (noise, occlusion).
• Collaborate across software, hardware, and test teams.

Skills

CV models

Model training & deployment

Edge inference optimization

Python + C++ (or Rust)

Real-time video pipelines

Tools

TensorRT

ONNX

Hailo

Jetson

Job description

Wild West Systems seeks an AI / Perception Engineer to build and deliver the perception layer of our autonomy stack. You will develop real-time computer vision and sensor-fusion systems that run on constrained edge hardware in dynamic environments.

This role takes perception from concept to field deployment, collaborating across software and hardware teams to ensure robust performance on our on-site Leander, Texas, facility. In-person work is required at this time.