Perception Engineer

Stride Search

San Francisco, California
30+ days ago

Highlights

We're looking for smart, ambitious people to help develop our next generation products, ensure they’re reliable and safe, and deploy them at scale. We believe in building great products to improve people’s lives by making transportation safer, more accessible, and more convenient.

Numbers & Facts

Location

San Francisco, California

Description

We're the driverless car company. We believe in building great products to improve people’s lives by making transportation safer, more accessible, and more convenient. Our team is small, but we move quickly. In less than a year, we built prototype vehicles that have logged over 10,000 autonomous miles on California highways. We're looking for smart, ambitious people to help develop our next generation products, ensure they’re reliable and safe, and deploy them at scale. We’re looking for perception engineers to make sure our cars can accurately identify and track objects.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Work with autonomous vehicle experts to advance the
  state of the art in object tracking, sensor fusion, classification, etc.
- Build robust, reliable systems to handle common and
  uncommon situations on the road.
- Develop perception algorithms that ensure vehicle safety

REQUIREMENTS

- Well versed in 2D and 3D perception algorithms
- BS, MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or similar
  field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience with one or more of the following: signal
  processing, SLAM, machine learning and classification, LIDAR, motion/path
  planning, probability, and geospatial databases.
- Comfortable writing production-quality code, especially
  in C++
- Understanding of sensor error modeling
- Passionate about self driving car technology and its impact on the world

BONUS POINTS

- Experience with writing robust, safety-critical code
- Experience with ROS, OpenCV, Gazebo, or PCL
- Experience with CUDA
- Experience in deploying perception algorithms into real world environments

PERKS

- Solve difficult problems that have immediate and
  valuable real-world applications
- Competitive salary and benefits (401k, health / dental
  / vision insurance)
- Competitive equity
- State of the art equipment for your work station
- Catered lunch, snacks, etc.
- Free rides in self-driving cars