18 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $248k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop real-time, high-performance perception software for automated forklift and loading dock automation systems.
- Serve as a leading technical contributor within the Perception organization and collaborate with broader engineering teams.
- Mentor and grow engineers and help build the team’s technical capabilities.
- Analyze product-performance issues, identify root causes, and apply systems-level thinking across perception and the broader system.
- Drive project scoping, requirements specification, and long-term technical roadmaps.
- Represent engineering in technical discussions with customer program stakeholders and own relevant customer-facing KPIs as needed.
- Operate across Perception, Controls, system architecture, CI/CD practices, and cross-team planning when required.
- Build high-quality software and drive engineering best practices and quality standards.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- At least 10 years of professional experience developing software for complex, real-time systems.
- Deep robotics perception expertise in SLAM, sensor fusion, state estimation, computer vision, and real-time processing of multiple cameras and/or LiDAR sensors.
- Track record of bringing complex robotic systems into production and delivering measurable value such as improved uptime, throughput, or fault reduction.
- Experience leading complex engineering efforts and delivering production systems while maintaining a healthy team.
- Experience mentoring or growing other engineers.
- Experience working beyond Perception in areas such as Controls, system architecture, CI/CD, planning, or customer-facing KPI ownership.
- Experience developing software for embedded or GPU-accelerated platforms, such as Nvidia platforms, is a plus.
- Experience with Linux development, Docker, asynchronous or multithreaded programming, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and protocols such as ROS and ROS2.
- Experience with Agile development methodology.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to engage directly with customer and program stakeholders on technical scope and tradeoffs.
- Prior experience with autonomous mobile robots, automated forklifts, or similarly complex, safety-relevant automated systems is strongly preferred.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to drive and/or fly to client and customer locations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), PTO, and other benefits are provided.
- The role is based in Austin, Texas and requires willingness to work extensively from that location; the posting is marked hybrid.
- Up to 10% travel may be required.
- Employees must own a credit card and personally manage expenses for bi-weekly reimbursement.
