Senior Perception Engineer - UAV Vision & Onboard AI

Neros Technologies; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Job summary

Neros Technologies in Torrance, CA, is seeking a Senior Perception Engineer to lead perception software for unmanned aircraft, spanning detection, classification, and image-space tracking on EO and thermal imagery with constrained onboard compute.

You will review designs and code across the team, extending the perception stack to night operations and ensuring robust evaluation against logged flight data, while partnering with platform and avionics teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience developing production computer vision or perception software.
• Proven delivery of perception software on a physical system in outdoor environments.
• Expert proficiency in C++ and Python under real-time constraints.
• Depth in both classical and learned perception, including tracking and detection.
• Experience deploying neural networks to embedded accelerators.
• Knowledge of EO and IR imaging, camera calibration, and sensor characteristics.
• Experience defining perception evaluation with metrics and regression tests.
• Experience selecting detection thresholds with safety-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver detection, classification, and image-space tracking for small, low-contrast targets at long standoff in cluttered terrain
• Extend the perception stack to IR and low-light imaging in support of night operations, including sensor frontend integration, performance characterization, and imagery collection
• Develop onboard target search and candidate generation that enables operator authorization of engagements over narrowband or degraded communications links
• Implement discrimination of valid targets from civilian, friendly, and neutral objects, and set detection operating points jointly with the state estimation and engagement authorization owners
• Define the perception output contract, including calibrated confidence and explicit signaling of no detection, suppressed detection, and degraded sensor conditions
• Deploy perception software to embedded compute in partnership with the platform team, owning the accuracy and latency trade-off and compliance with end-to-end latency budgets
• Define and maintain perception evaluation and regression cases against logged flight data, and provide senior technical review across the perception team

Skills

C++

Python

Real-time systems

Computer vision

Embedded accelerators

Embedded systems

EO/IR imaging

Sensor timing

Tools

TensorRT

CUDA

ROS

Job description

Neros Technologies in Torrance, CA, is seeking a Senior Perception Engineer to lead perception software for unmanned aircraft, spanning detection, classification, and image-space tracking on EO and thermal imagery with constrained onboard compute.

You will review designs and code across the team, extending the perception stack to night operations and ensuring robust evaluation against logged flight data, while partnering with platform and avionics teams.