Founding Software Engineer; Perception

We’re a well-funded, early-stage deep-tech company building autonomous inspection systems for critical infrastructure. Our platform combines advanced sensing hardware with real-time software to deliver reliable, high-fidelity environmental understanding in challenging operational conditions. We’re growing our perception team to own and evolve the sensing stack end-to-end.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the sensing and perception stack from sensor evaluation through to production-ready data outputs
• Evaluate, select, and validate sensors including sonar, vision, radar, and navigation systems
• Characterize sensor behavior across noise, bias, latency, failure modes, and environmental effects
• Design calibration, synchronization, and validation pipelines to ensure consistent data quality
• Develop perception and sensor fusion approaches that transform raw sensor data into usable representations
• Build tooling to visualize, replay, and inspect raw and processed sensor data
• Diagnose perception failures in real-world deployments and drive fixes across software, sensors, or system design
• Collaborate closely with autonomy, systems, and downstream users to deliver trustworthy data products

You Should Have:

• 2–4+ years’ experience in software engineering with a focus on perception and sensors
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python on Linux-based systems
• Hands-on experience working with real-world sensor data (e.g. sonar, vision, radar, GNSS, IMU) Comfort owning problems end-to-end in hardware-software integrated systems
• A practical, data-driven mindset for debugging complex, real-world failures

Bonus:

• Experience in robotics, autonomy, or fielded sensing systems
• Sensor fusion or calibration pipeline experience
• Background working in harsh or operationally constrained environments
• Early-stage startup experience or comfort operating with high ownership and ambiguity

Why Join Us:

• Highly competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Work on mission-critical systems with real-world impact
• Small, elite engineering team with significant technical ownership
• In-person collaboration on complex hardware + software problems

Apply:

Email paolo for a confidential discussion. Exceptional engineers from non-traditional backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Keywords: Perception Engineering, Sensors, Sensor Fusion, C++, Python, Robotics, Autonomy, Sonar, Computer Vision, Embedded Systems, Radar, Camera, Navigation