• Own end-to-end perception pipelines deployed to operational systems • Deliver high-reliability solutions aligned with mission requirements • Design, train, and optimize perception models for maritime environments • Develop object detection, classification, and tracking systems • Work with large vision models (ViT, CLIP, SAM, or similar) • Fuse multi-modal sensor data (camera, radar, lidar) into unified perception outputs • Collaborate with hardware teams to select and integrate sensors • Develop and validate low-level sensor drivers for high-integrity data pipelines • Deploy models using NVIDIA Triton Inference Server • Optimize inference for latency and throughput on edge hardware • Apply quantization, pruning, and other optimization techniques • Integrate perception outputs into autonomy stacks alongside mission software and platform teams • Support troubleshooting of perception performance in operational environments • Define metrics and evaluation frameworks to monitor deployed system health • Investigate perception failures and drive resolution across teams • Partner with operators and customers to translate field challenges into engineering solutions