Perception Engineer III

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $155k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

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ZS is a consulting and technology services firm that specializes in providing analytics and solutions specifically for the healthcare and life sciences industries. Their expertise spans across various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical technology, and health plans, enabling organizations to enhance their commercial effectiveness and drive results through data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. With a commitment to transforming healthcare, ZS partners with clients to bridge gaps and improve patient experiences through digital health advancements and intelligent process automation.

📋 Description

• Serve as the perception technical lead embedded within a program team • Develop seeker, target state estimation, and world modeling capabilities on a common AI/ML platform • Design and develop target detection, tracking, and state estimation pipelines • Implement track initiation, maintenance, association, and termination logic • Develop and tune nonlinear state estimators for target motion modeling • Characterize seeker performance across engagement geometries, environmental conditions, and target signatures • Define confidence and covariance outputs for downstream autonomy • Architect world-state representations fusing self-state, target tracks, terrain, threats, and mission context • Integrate VIO/SLAM, sensor fusion, and target-tracking outputs • Manage temporal alignment, coordinate frames, and data association across heterogeneous sensor streams • Define perception-to-autonomy interfaces • Own perception architecture and align with autonomy, guidance, and mission software teams • Design DDS topic structures and message contracts within a WOSA-aligned architecture • Build ROS2 nodes and libraries with clean, versioned interfaces • Contribute reusable perception components to the common AI/ML platform • Balance program-specific customization with platform-level standardization • Develop and optimize C++ perception code for deterministic embedded performance • Profile compute, memory, and I/O for real-time constraints • Decide workloads for GPU, CPU, or dedicated accelerators • Support integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and field validation • Write technical design documents, RFCs, and trade studies • Mentor junior perception engineers through code review, pairing, and technical direction • Represent perception in technical reviews and cross-team planning • Translate program requirements into measurable perception subsystem acceptance criteria

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's in Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field (Master's preferred); equivalent industry experience also welcome • 6-9+ years of experience in robotics perception, state estimation, or sensor fusion • Strong proficiency in modern C++ for real-time embedded systems, with emphasis on determinism, memory discipline, and performance • Hands-on experience with ROS2 and DDS-based middleware in production or program-delivered systems • Demonstrable experience developing and tuning nonlinear state estimators (EKF, UKF, or particle filters) for real applications • Working knowledge of at least one relevant area: target tracking, SLAM, VIO, or multi-sensor fusion • Experience deploying perception software on embedded compute platforms • Strong foundation in linear algebra, probability, coordinate frames, and estimation theory • Track record of owning a technical subsystem from architecture through delivery • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs to engineering and program stakeholders • Ability to obtain or maintain a security clearance • Preferred: experience with seeker systems, target tracking, or guidance-adjacent perception in a defense context • Preferred: hands-on work with WOSA, MOSA, or other open architecture standards • Preferred: deep DDS experience including QoS design, discovery, and performance tuning • Preferred: NVIDIA Jetson deployment experience • Preferred: experience with SLAM/VIO frameworks such as OpenVINS, VINS-Fusion, ORB-SLAM, GTSAM, or Ceres • Preferred: familiarity with PX4 or ArduPilot and MAVLink • Preferred: understanding of multi-hypothesis tracking, JPDA, or MHT • Preferred: background integrating classical perception with learned components • Preferred: GPU acceleration experience with CUDA and TensorRT • Preferred: hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure and flight test data analysis experience • Preferred: familiarity with model-based development workflows such as Simulink and ROS2 code generation • Preferred: publications, patents, or prior program contributions in tracking, estimation, or autonomous systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package • Comprehensive benefit package options including medical, dental, vision, life, and more • 401k with company match • 3 weeks of paid time off each year • 40 hours of sick time • 12 annual company holidays • Cutting-edge defense and aerospace technology environment • Collaborative culture • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement

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