Senior Perception Software Engineer

The Senior Perception Software Engineer owns key components of Cyngn’s autonomy perception stack, leading the design, development, and deployment of object detection, tracking, and sensor fusion algorithms and the testing and validation infrastructure that supports them, for autonomous vehicles operating in complex indoor and outdoor environments. This role sets technical direction for owned subsystems, mentors other engineers, and partners across teams to deliver production-ready perception capabilities.

• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of object detection, tracking, and sensor fusion algorithms for autonomous vehicles, from research through production.
• Own the architecture and technical direction of assigned perception subsystems, making sound trade-offs among accuracy, latency, compute, and robustness, including in challenging conditions such as variable lighting, dust, reflective surfaces, and degraded sensors.
• Define perception performance metrics and evaluation frameworks, and drive the tooling and infrastructure for continuous testing, performance validation, and system diagnostics.
• Build and curate ground-truth and regression datasets that enable automated backtesting of perception changes.
• Lead testing and deployment of production software in simulation environments and on production vehicles, driving root-cause analysis and resolution of perception failures found in field and simulation testing.
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