Perception Engineer - Offroad

Applied Intuition - Sunnyvale, CA

Hiring: Perception Engineer - Offroad Company: Applied Intuition Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:28:59 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : C++, Docker, ONNX, PyTorch, Python, TensorRT About the job Required Skills: •Collaborate daily with the core autonomy platform team, customer engineering, and BD, and will help stand up new product lines alongside developing existing ones. •At Applied Intuition, You Will •Design and implement perception systems to enable new product capabilities, leveraging existing model heads and solving new perception tasks. •Design the data strategy for a new deployment: what to collect, how much, and how to label it, to get a model production-ready •Make build-vs-reuse tradeoffs when standing up new product lines, including output types, KPIs, and collaboration points with the core perception team •Triage model and system issues in the field — timestamps, data quality, calibration, and similar — and decide whether to resolve them directly or work with the core platform team to fix them upstream •Strong systems-level understanding of perception (and ideally planning/controls) — enough to reason about the full stack, even without owning model training personally •A product-owner mindset: motivated by customer success and problem ownership more than by being on the cutting edge of modeling research Qualifications: •Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Compensation: •$180,000 - $255,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!