Senior Software Engineer, Perception
Shield AI
Washington, Dallas, San Diego, Boston
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 163,200 - 244,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Analytical thinking","Problem-solving","Translating research into production"]Develop and deploy vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models for autonomous systems. You’ll design and maintain perception models, build scalable data pipelines and supervised fine-tuning workflows, and create evaluation benchmarks to find failure modes. Optimize trained models for embedded hardware using tools like ONNX and TensorRT, and translate research into reliable, production-ready capabilities through cross-functional collaboration across perception, autonomy, platform, and software teams.

