Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception

Gatik

Mountain View, California

Full Time

Posted March 7, 2026

$180k - $260k

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Job Description

The role involves leading the design, development, and deployment of perception systems for autonomous trucks, focusing on computer vision techniques such as object detection, tracking, and sensor fusion to enable safe and efficient driverless freight transportation.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement perception system components such as object detection, object tracking, and multi-sensor fusion
Build software infrastructure for learning algorithms utilizing large-scale image and LIDAR data
Develop optimized pipelines for data pre-processing, model training, inference, and post-processing
Train perception models, evaluate performance, and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks
Create scalable training and evaluation tools and infrastructure
Collaborate with engineering teams to conduct system integration and testing

Requirements

Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or related field
7 years of related experience in software development or perception systems
2 years of professional experience working on Computer Vision using C and OpenCV
Expert knowledge of modern C (C11 or later) and Python programming languages
Experience in deploying perception algorithms into real-world environments
Familiarity with NVIDIA software libraries such as CUDA or TensorRT
Experience building testing and evaluation platforms for perception systems
Familiarity with deep learning applied to computer vision problems
Experience working on Computer Vision problems in at least two of the following subjects: Feature detection matching, Image Filtering, Object Tracking, 3D Estimation, 3D Reconstruction, SLAM
Proficiency in modern container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
In-depth understanding of software performance and optimization techniques
Strong math fundamentals and a good grasp of 3D geometry and vector math
Worked with one or more neural network frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch