True Talent Solutions Partners

Principal Software Engineer, Perception

Alameda (United States)
Salary
$300,000 - $380,000 annually
Level
Principal
Work type
On-site · Alameda
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 30 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company, where you will set technical direction for systems that help autonomous vehicles operate safely in complex ocean environments. You will shape perception capabilities spanning sensor fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation.

What You'll Do

  • Define the architecture and technical direction for the perception stack, including fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation.
  • Integrate heterogeneous sensors, including radar and cameras, into reliable information streams for downstream autonomy.
  • Partner with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to ensure perception outputs support safe vehicle behavior.
  • Turn research algorithms into robust production systems that meet sensor, latency, edge-compute, and environmental constraints.
  • Lead architecture decisions, technical reviews, and hands-on problem solving while mentoring and developing engineers.
  • Guide data labeling, ground-truth dataset development, and evaluation frameworks to improve system performance.
  • Contribute technical leadership to team growth, hiring, and mentorship.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 8 years of experience in perception or robotics engineering, operating at Staff level or above.
  • Demonstrated ownership of production perception systems deployed on autonomous vehicles or robots.
  • Deep expertise in sensor fusion, localization, state estimation, tracking, mapping, and probabilistic estimation.
  • Strong mathematical and algorithmic foundations in computer vision, machine learning, and related fields.
  • Experience with onboard software and real-time inference on constrained edge hardware, ideally including NVIDIA Jetson.
  • Familiarity with C++, Python, radar, camera systems, SLAM, uncertainty modeling, and simulation.
  • Experience with maritime autonomy or multiple sensor modalities is beneficial; experience with RTOS or minimal Linux environments is also useful.
  • US Person status, meaning US citizenship or a Green Card, is required.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $300,000 to $380,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid, Alameda, United States.

What this role asks for

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

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The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (70 of 125), TypeScript (45 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), React (37 of 125), Machine Learning (35 of 125), AWS (26 of 125), JavaScript (24 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Other openings for this role

2 postings for this role in Alameda (United States) since 27 October 2026, 1 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.

  • 30 October 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 27 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026

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