Staff Software Engineer (Perception)

Join the Hivemind Solutions Perception team as a Staff Software Engineer. In this role, you will lead the technical development of advanced machine learning solutions for autonomous systems. You will design, train, fine-tune, and maintain state-of-the-art vision models, build scalable data pipelines, deploy and optimize machine learning models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This position offers excellent medical coverage, mental health support, paid parental leave, pet insurance, flexible work hours, and competitive compensation.

Lead the technical development of advanced machine learning solutions for perception in autonomous systems, driving architecture and model development.

USD 195,200 - 292,800

Responsibilities

• Design, train, fine-tune, and maintain state-of-the-art vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models to improve perception and decision-making.
• Build scalable data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning workflows, and evaluation loops that continuously improve model performance on mission-relevant tasks.
• Strong understanding of 3D vision problems/algorithms

Requirements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate research into practical applications
• Proficiency in C++ and Python
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Expertise of machine learning fundamentals

• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated expertise in deploying models using TensorRT and ONNX
• Experience training an deploying ML models for computer vision in a production setting
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow

Preferred

• Experience with training/finetuning vision-language models, vision-language-action models, and/or world models
• Contributions to open-source projects in machine learning or computer vision
• Experience with developing autonomous systems for defense customers
• Track record of publications in leading computer vision and robotics conferences and journals (e.g., CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, RAL, ICRA)