Perception Engineer
Mach IndustriesBase Salary
$125k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and refine CNN- and Transformer-based detection, segmentation, and tracking architectures for EO/IR and multi-spectral imagery.
- Develop large-scale datasets, training recipes, evaluation pipelines, regression tests, and model-update loops using field data.
- Optimize models for real-time embedded inference through quantization, pruning, runtime optimization, and CPU/GPU profiling.
- Fuse vision outputs with radar, LiDAR, and RF cues for confirmation, association, and track management.
- Create visualization, triage, and root-cause tools for simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight-log analysis.
- Define end-to-end test plans with hardware and flight teams and validate algorithms using high-fidelity sensor simulations and real-world datasets.
- Monitor health metrics and model drift, support graceful degradation, and document tests mapped to performance requirements.
Requirements
- Production C++ on Linux and Python for ML and tooling, including profiling, optimization, rigorous testing, and CUDA performance debugging.
- Experience with modern detection, segmentation, and tracking architectures and training or fine-tuning models in PyTorch.
- Experience building large, diverse datasets, labeling and QA pipelines, augmentation workflows, experiment tracking, and reproducible training.
- Hands-on experience with INT8/FP16 model compression, runtime optimization, and real-time inference constraints.
- Experience with EO/IR imagery and real flight or test data in challenging environments.
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, or a similar field, or equivalent experience, with 7+ years of experience and a record of shipping ML models to production.
- Preferred experience with multi-modal perception using EO/IR, radar, LiDAR, and RF data.
- Preferred experience with adversarial and rare-event testing, long-horizon reliability metrics, dataset shift and drift monitoring, physics-aware imaging, synthetic data, and simulation.
- Preferred experience with SQL, Parquet, dataset versioning tools, CI-based validation, MLOps, and scalable multi-GPU training.
- Employment may require authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Professional development opportunities
- Employment may require authorization to access technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without export-license sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; Mach participates in E-Verify
About Mach Industries
Mach Industries is a defense manufacturing company that develops and produces unmanned aerospace and defense systems, along with the infrastructure required to manufacture them at scale. Its product portfolio includes strike aircraft, long-range munitions, high-altitude platforms, counter-drone systems, and propulsion technologies designed for military applications. The company follows a vertically integrated approach, designing and manufacturing key components and systems in-house to support production, testing, and deployment. Mach Industries also operates a decentralized manufacturing network that supports the production of defense hardware and related components. In addition to developing operational systems, the company provides capabilities in propulsion, energetics, testing, and advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace applications.