Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
$190,000 - $222,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Machine LearningMLPerformance OptimizationMentoring
About this role
Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup focused on building autonomous directed energy systems for counter-UAS. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will lead the perception stack for their system, overseeing detection, tracking, classification, and sensor fusion, while also mentoring other engineers as the team grows.
Responsibilities:
- Perception architecture across detection, tracking, classification, and sensor fusion
- ML model development, training pipelines, and on-device deployment
- Multi-sensor fusion across EO/IR and other sensors as relevant to the targeting chain
- Real-time performance optimization on embedded targets
- Mentorship of perception engineers as the team grows
- Direct partnership with controls, robotics SWE, and hardware on what's actually achievable