havocai - Engineering Manager, Perception and Machine Learning
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. • 7+ years of relevant engineering experience in perception, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, autonomy, sensor fusion, or related fields. • 2+ years of direct people-management experience, ideally managing engineers in a highly technical environment. • Strong technical understanding of modern perception systems, including computer vision, sensor fusion, tracking, detection, classification, or ML-based scene understanding. • Experience taking ML or perception capabilities from development through testing and deployment in real-world systems. • Demonstrated ability to manage engineering priorities, technical roadmaps, dependencies, and delivery across multiple initiatives. • Experience hiring, coaching, developing, and evaluating engineering talent. • Strong cross-functional leadership skills and experience partnering with software, autonomy, data, hardware, product, and field teams. • Ability to make sound decisions across technical performance, schedule, resources, risk, and product requirements. • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • High ownership, sound judgment, and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance. • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Vision, or a related field. • Previous experience managing a Perception, ML, Robotics, or Autonomy engineering team. • Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, defense technology, aerospace, maritime systems, or other deployed autonomous systems. • Experience with multimodal sensor systems including cameras, EO/IR, radar, LiDAR, AIS, GPS/INS, or IMU. • Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorRT, ONNX, CUDA, MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, NVIDIA Jetson, or similar ML and deployment technologies. • Experience with simulation, synthetic data, annotation workflows, and large-scale perception datasets. • Experience supporting field testing, customer demonstrations, operational evaluations, or deployed robotic systems. • Experience supporting government or DoD programs. • Active or prior security clearance.
Responsibilities
• Lead, manage, and develop a team of perception, machine learning, sensor fusion, and software engineers. • Own team planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery against the Perception & ML roadmap. • Partner with senior technical contributors to guide architecture and technical decisions across computer vision, sensor fusion, tracking, detection, classification, segmentation, and related capabilities. • Oversee development and maturation of model training, evaluation, data curation, validation, and deployment workflows. • Ensure perception capabilities are designed around real-world performance, reliability, compute constraints, and field readiness. • Partner cross-functionally with Autonomy, Embedded, Data, Simulation, Hardware, Product, Programs, and Field Operations. • Translate customer, mission, and product requirements into clear engineering priorities and execution plans. • Use field data, testing results, and operator feedback to prioritize improvements and address performance gaps. • Establish effective engineering practices around design reviews, code reviews, testing, model evaluation, release readiness, and technical documentation. • Identify execution risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to engineering leadership. • Coach and develop engineers through regular feedback, performance management, career development, and mentorship. • Recruit, interview, onboard, and retain high-performing engineers as the team grows. • Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
• $200K – $225K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Our openings span more than one career level. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • We can only hire US Citizens due to our specific industry and government contracts. • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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