Senior Software Engineer, Perception Architecture

Stack AV is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop foundational ML architecture and systematic approaches to tackle challenging perception problems for the self-driving system.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the technical direction of the Perception Architecture team and the broader perception organization
• Design and develop core machine learning components and architectures that enable the perception system to scale and reliably address complex, long-tail driving scenarios
• Drive the initial implementation and prototyping of key architectural decisions, such as handling long tail challenges or long range detection
• Contribute to the improvement of model frameworks, architecture, and data pipelines to eliminate development bottlenecks and accelerate model iteration
• Lead challenging technical topics and build consensus across sister teams (e.g., Actor Detection, Scene Understanding, Tracking) and stakeholders to ensure autonomy-wide alignment

Requirements:

• BS (with 4+ years of experience), MS (with 2+ years of experience), or PhD (with 1+ years of experience) in a perception-related field, such as Robotics, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning
• Extensive experience architecting, training, and evaluating deep learning models for challenging problem spaces
• Track record of driving applied research or engineering projects from conception and experimentation to successful productization
• Strong experience in software engineering, machine learning algorithm design, and building data/metrics pipelines for ML development
• Fluency in Python and hands-on experience with C++
• Experience delivering detection, segmentation, tracking, or other perception solutions for real-time robotic applications
• Experience in sensor fusion being highly desirable