Software Engineer, Perception

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🌵 Arizona – Remote

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⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Posted on Valkyrie Aero's careers page, not through a job board

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Valkyrie Aero

51 - 200 employees

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Defense • Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence

Valkyrie Aero is a U. S. Department of Defense prime contractor and tactical technology firm focused on air-to-air and air-to-ground defense solutions. The company develops and fields AI-enabled manned counter‑UAS (cUAS) systems (branded “Gunslinger”) integrated onto light‑attack platforms such as the A‑29 Super Tucano, and operates the largest contractable, mission‑ready fleet of light‑attack Tucanos while holding DoD authorizations for night sensors/weapons release with NVGs. Valkyrie also delivers JTAC and pilot training as a DoD prime on USAF IDIQ contracts, provides live, simulated, and blended LVC training, and integrates sensors, weapons, and electronic‑warfare capabilities to reduce operational cost and extend frontline asset life.

📋 Description

• Develop real-time detection, classification, and multi-object tracking on live sensor feeds • Fuse inputs from multiple sensors into a single track picture • Design, train, and evaluate models against latency and accuracy targets for embedded deployment • Optimize inference on embedded hardware, including pruning, quantization, and TensorRT • Develop and maintain the dataset pipeline, including collection, labeling, curation, augmentation, synthetic data, and retraining from field data • Establish the evaluation framework and metrics, measured under operational conditions • Deliver track state (position, velocity, identity, uncertainty) to control software and the operator interface • Develop backend services and APIs as required • Work with hardware engineers on camera, optics, and sensor selection • Support integration and test, including diagnosing and resolving issues on target hardware

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience developing real-time computer vision and multi-object tracking pipelines • Experience delivering detection or tracking systems to production under latency, small-object, and adversarial conditions • Experience with sensor fusion • Experience with backend, integration, and systems software in addition to perception • Proficiency in Python and C++ • Experience working with hardware and real-time data • Must be a U.S. citizen • Preferred: Experience with PyTorch, TensorRT, ONNX, DeepStream, or GStreamer • Preferred: Experience with thermal, infrared, or multispectral imaging • Preferred: Experience with multi-modal sensor fusion across EO/IR, radar, or acoustic sensors • Preferred: Experience with synthetic data generation and sim-to-real • Preferred: Experience deploying on NVIDIA Jetson • Preferred: Experience with embedded Linux and device I/O (cameras, gimbals, sensors) • Preferred: Experience with gRPC or WebSockets • Preferred: Experience in defense or other safety-critical computer vision • Preferred: Personal robotics or hardware projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position

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