• Be a technical thought leader to champion May Mobility’s mission, vision, values and company priorities to develop and execute autonomy strategy with fellow executives and engineering leaders. • Work cross-functionally with Vehicle Engineering, Product, and Operations leaders to solve and deploy solutions to autonomy perception challenges. • Deliver innovative and robust advances to May’s perception technology including measurable improvements to object detection, classification, tracking, and prediction. • Ensure May’s core perception technologies operate efficiently and effectively in commercial deployments, including supporting effective triage and resolution of issues related to this technology. • Maintain an understanding of related research fields including machine learning, end-to-end learned systems, tracking systems, multi-sensor fusion, and behavior prediction. • Lead design and specification of next-generation sensor suites to maximize May’s perception system performance and optimize cost. Work with systems and hardware teams to support prototyping and evaluating future systems. • Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to track autonomy performance • Identify key gaps and challenges in May’s autonomy perception technology. • Construct and execute a roadmap to solve key challenges and work with other autonomy leaders to synchronize this roadmap with the roadmaps of other functions. • Identify monthly, quarterly and yearly milestones to iteratively improve performance in both the short and long term. • Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects and provide the team with technical leadership. • Help set perception team hiring targets. Interview, hire, and manage a diverse team of talented perception engineers and scientists. • Oversee the escalation of critical issues and opportunities within the autonomy team’s leadership, driving clear recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of the team with respect to company priorities and strategy.