Perception Engineer - Defense (All-Domain)

Posted 18 days ago

applied intuitionSunnyvale (CA)

Robotics Engineers Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

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Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company's solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co. We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions

About the role: The Perception Engineer role at Applied Intuition Defense is a hands-on, full-stack, high tempo position where you will be part of an expert team rapidly pursuing the second (99%) and third nine (99.9%) of perception model performance across maritime, land, air-to-surface, and surface-to-surface domains, in EO and IR. We develop our own custom detector and classifier architectures, we've developed our own comprehensive MLOps tooling allowing us to rapidly iterate at the scale of millions of images and videos, we make our own industry-leading labeling software, and we manage in-house labeling on a daily basis. We do all of this using frontier AI and large token budgets. If something needs to be built to get the job done, we will build it. If you have extensive modeling experience with transformers, vision-language models, diffusion models, and video model training pipelines, we need you. If you have deployed production ML models into the real world or optimized them heavily, we need you. At Applied Intuition Defense, you will: Develop perception models that find and classify targets with an error rate of

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