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Director, Autonomy Perception
Location
Michigan
Posted
136 days ago
Salary
$220K - $300K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Autonomy Perception
May Mobility
• Be a technical thought leader to champion May Mobility’s mission, vision, values and company priorities to develop and execute autonomy strategy with fellow executives and engineering leaders. • Work cross-functionally with Vehicle Engineering, Product, and Operations leaders to solve and deploy solutions to autonomy perception challenges. • Deliver innovative and robust advances to May’s perception technology including measurable improvements to object detection, classification, tracking, and prediction. • Ensure May’s core perception technologies operate efficiently and effectively in commercial deployments, including supporting effective triage and resolution of issues related to this technology. • Maintain an understanding of related research fields including machine learning, end-to-end learned systems, tracking systems, multi-sensor fusion, and behavior prediction. • Lead design and specification of next-generation sensor suites to maximize May’s perception system performance and optimize cost. Work with systems and hardware teams to support prototyping and evaluating future systems. • Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to track autonomy performance • Identify key gaps and challenges in May’s autonomy perception technology. • Construct and execute a roadmap to solve key challenges and work with other autonomy leaders to synchronize this roadmap with the roadmaps of other functions. • Identify monthly, quarterly and yearly milestones to iteratively improve performance in both the short and long term. • Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects and provide the team with technical leadership. • Help set perception team hiring targets. Interview, hire, and manage a diverse team of talented perception engineers and scientists. • Oversee the escalation of critical issues and opportunities within the autonomy team’s leadership, driving clear recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of the team with respect to company priorities and strategy.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- PhD or masters degree in a relevant, highly technical field (e.g. robotics, computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, physics)
- A demonstrated ability to solve complex autonomy problems as a principal investigator, staff or principal engineer, or director (or equivalent role)
- 7+ years of software-focused engineering experience solving challenging robotics problems in mission critical software and/or robotic systems.
- Experience leading a team of 10+ engineers - setting goals, leading by example, handling challenging situations and failures
- Previous experience as individual contributor successfully developing and deploying innovative solutions in the autonomous vehicle or related space
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate.
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
- Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
- Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
- Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
- Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing
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