Perception Engineer (Offroad)

Join Applied Intuition as a Perception Engineer on the Mining Autonomy team. You will be responsible for perception outcomes for autonomous mining vehicles operating across active customer sites in Australia, Europe, and the US. Your role will involve selecting sensor sets for new vehicles, adapting existing models to new domains, diagnosing model underperformance, and collaborating with various teams. You should have experience diagnosing real-world model failures, familiarity with relevant technologies, and a strong systems-level understanding of perception.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement perception systems to enable new product capabilities, leveraging existing model heads and solving new perception tasks.
• Select sensor sets for new vehicles, adapt existing models to new domains, and diagnose why a model underperforms on a new site.
• Collaborate with the core autonomy platform team, customer engineering, and BD to stand up new product lines and develop existing ones.
• Experience diagnosing real-world model failures in deployed systems and driving them to resolution, whether hands-on or through cross-team negotiation

Requirements

• Familiarity with PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, Docker, Python, some C++
• Comfort working with ambiguous, evolving requirements from customers and translating them into technical specs
• A product-owner mindset: motivated by customer success and problem ownership more than by being on the cutting edge of modeling research
• Strong systems-level understanding of perception (and ideally planning/controls) — enough to reason about the full stack, even without owning model training personally

Preferred

• Experience with internal ML pipeline/orchestration tooling (e.g., Flyte) is a plus
• Experience with offroad autonomy

Pay

USD 180,000 - 255,000