Senior Manager Perception

You will manage a technical team developing, integrating, and testing perception algorithms for advanced aerospace, defense, and robotics systems. You will write and validate production C++ software, develop assured position, navigation, and timing capabilities, extend state-estimation frameworks, and test algorithms with simulated and real-world data. You will collaborate with hardware and test teams to validate performance on aerial platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead autonomy, integration, and testing teams
• Write production-quality C++ software
• Develop assured position, navigation, and timing systems for GNSS-degraded or denied environments
• Extend state-estimation frameworks for new sensors, platforms, and missions
• Write test code using simulated and real-world data
• Validate algorithms and code with hardware and test teams on aerial platforms
• Develop analyzers to produce code-quality statistics
• Enhance sensor models in a high-fidelity simulation environment
• Improve analysis and benchmarking capabilities

Requirements

• Relevant bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10 or more years of related experience
• 2 or more years managing technical teams
• Ability to develop, benchmark, debug, and deploy software-based algorithms
• Experience integrating and working with sensor payloads in the DoD space
• Sensor-fusion expertise for noisy high-bandwidth exteroceptive sensors on compute-constrained systems
• Knowledge of state estimation, object detection, data association, probabilistic robotics, and signal processing
• Experience on projects with 10 or more contributors
• Unix experience
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity
• Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment for temporary employees