This role involves leading a perception team in developing algorithms for autonomous driving systems, supervising team members, and conducting research to enhance perception capabilities.
ISEE is seeking an experienced full-time Senior Perception Engineer to join our team.
Job duties: Provide daily technical and execution guidance on research and development tasks to perception team members. Specifically:
• Research, design, and develop algorithms for autonomous driving systems to solve
challenging problems in ISEE's Perception and Sensor stack.
• Prototype and deploy robust perception algorithms on ISEE's vehicle fleet in areas of:
Object Detection, Localization and Mapping, Fusion and Multi Object Tracking;
• Develop systems for multimodal Sensor Fusion and Calibration using multiple grade
sensors including but not limited to Cameras, LiDARs, GNSS, IMUs and RaDARs.
• Invent and design new algorithms, tools, and models in emerging research areas to
improve the complex autonomous vehicle systems;
• Develop simulations for ISEE's systems and identify discrepancies between virtual and
real-world performance for future development and analysis.
• Contribute novel research ideas and collaborate with team members to conduct research
data analysis. Lead the algorithm design discussions to solve technical problems for these
systems;
• Stay up to date with current research in the field of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and share relevant research with the team.
Job requirements:
*Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Vision.
*At least 4+ years of work (non-academic) experience
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