Engineer Manager - Perception, Self-Driving Systems

5+ years in ML/deep learning for perception or 3D scene understanding. Deep hands-on experience training and deploying vision models at scale.

2+ years managing a perception team, with ability to both set direction and contribute to architecture and training decisions directly.

Experience building production perception systems, especially camera-only or camera-first solutions.

Track record deploying perception models to embedded hardware under real-time latency and compute constraints, including device-specific optimizations.

Strong software engineering in Python and C++, comfortable across the stack from training code to onboard inference integration.

Experience scaling perception models across multiple geographies, sensor setups, or vehicle platforms.

Deep familiarity with transformer-based architectures for 3D perception, BEV representations, multi-task learning, and dense prediction.

Familiarity with occupancy-based scene representations, sparse query-based architectures, or temporal aggregation approaches.

Experience reducing or removing map dependencies in perception systems.

Background in autolabel pipelines, data quality monitoring, or data flywheel design for perception.

Experience with closed-loop simulation for perception model evaluation (neural sim, log sim, scenario-based testing).

Experience at an AV company that has shipped perception to production.

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

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