Perception Engineer, Staff

9 Mothers is a company focused on developing AI powered machines for counter-drone systems. They are seeking a Perception Lead to manage the computer vision and machine learning stack for target detection and tracking in real-time.

Responsibilities:

• Own the visual perception pipeline end-to-end, including detection, classification, and tracking of sUAS targets in real time
• Design and train machine learning models that meet latency and accuracy requirements for edge deployment on Jetson-class hardware
• Architect and maintain the dataset and simulation pipeline, including data collection, labeling, curation, augmentation, synthetic data generation, and closed-loop retraining based on field performance
• Optimize inference performance on Jetson platforms, including model pruning, quantization, TensorRT integration, and custom kernel development as required
• Establish the model evaluation framework and metrics used to assess perception performance under operational conditions
• Deliver target state information (position, velocity, identity, uncertainty) to the controls subsystem
• Collaborate with the hardware team on camera, optics, and sensor selection