[Remote] Embedded Perception Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HavocAI is a leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy, providing innovative solutions for military and commercial-grade autonomous systems. The Embedded Perception Engineer will be responsible for developing and optimizing perception systems that ensure autonomous vessels can effectively understand their environments in real-time, particularly under challenging maritime conditions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end perception pipelines deployed to operational systems
• Deliver high-reliability solutions aligned with mission requirements
• Design, train, and optimize perception models for maritime environments
• Develop object detection, classification, and tracking systems
• Work with large vision models (ViT, CLIP, SAM, or similar)
• Fuse multi-modal sensor data (camera, radar, lidar) into unified perception outputs
• Collaborate with hardware teams to select and integrate sensors
• Develop and validate low-level sensor drivers for high-integrity data pipelines
• Deploy models using NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
• Optimize inference for latency and throughput on edge hardware
• Apply quantization, pruning, and other optimization techniques
• Integrate perception outputs into autonomy stacks alongside mission software and platform teams
• Support troubleshooting of perception performance in operational environments
• Define metrics and evaluation frameworks to monitor deployed system health
• Investigate perception failures and drive resolution across teams
• Partner with operators and customers to translate field challenges into engineering solutions

Skills

• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related field
• 3+ years developing and deploying computer vision or perception systems in C++ and/or Python on Linux
• Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Hands-on experience with large vision models (ViT, CLIP, SAM, etc.)
• Experience implementing sensor fusion across heterogeneous modalities
• Proficiency with NVIDIA Triton, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or equivalent inference tooling
• Ability to quickly navigate and understand complex codebases
• Strong systems-thinking mindset
• U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for U.S. security clearance
• Experience deploying perception systems on embedded platforms (Jetson, FPGA, similar)
• Familiarity with maritime or aerial sensor environments
• Experience optimizing models for edge inference
• Knowledge of autonomy frameworks (ROS2, MOOS-IvP)
• Experience with safety-critical or real-time systems
• Familiarity with military systems and defense acquisition processes

Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families
• Life Insurance (Employer Paid)
• Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching)
• Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum
• Equity Package
• Work / Home Office Stipend
• Global Entry
• 16 Week Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend

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