Staff ML Engineer, Perception for Autonomous Systems

Frontdoor Defense; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 195.000 - 293.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Perception, to lead development of state-of-the-art perception models from research to production for autonomous systems. Location includes Washington, DC area with other U.S. sites.

You will own architecture across vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models, mentor engineers, and collaborate with researchers, perception, autonomy, and platform teams to deliver mission-ready capabilities.

Formación

• 7+ years experience with Bachelor's, or 6 with Master's, or 4 with PhD, or equivalent.
• Fundamental ML expertise.
• CV ML training and deployment in production.
• Strong 3D vision understanding.
• Experience with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• TensorRT and ONNX deployment expertise.
• C++ and Python proficiency.
• Strong analytical/problem-solving and translation of research to practice.
• Ability to obtain SECRET clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Design, train, fine-tune, and maintain vision and vision-language models.
• Build scalable data pipelines and SFT workflows.
• Deploy and optimize ML models on embedded hardware with ONNX, TensorRT.
• Apply ML to perception and autonomy challenges across autonomous systems.
• Translate research into production-ready capabilities balancing performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with perception, autonomy, platform, and software teams.
• Develop benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to measure model performance.
• Improve training infrastructure and deployment workflows.

Conocimientos

Machine learning fundamentals

PyTorch

TensorFlow

TensorRT

ONNX

C++

Python

3D vision

Production ML deployment

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Perception, to lead development of state-of-the-art perception models from research to production for autonomous systems. Location includes Washington, DC area with other U.S. sites.

You will own architecture across vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models, mentor engineers, and collaborate with researchers, perception, autonomy, and platform teams to deliver mission-ready capabilities.