# Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception at Atoms

- Company: Atoms
- What the company does: Backed by Initial Capital.
- Company website: https://atoms.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $275K to $321K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atoms/jobs/8842793002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/atoms-staff-machine-learning-engineer-perception/

## About the role

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Perception, you will be one of the foundational technical leaders of Atoms' AI organization. You will help define how our machines transform raw sensor data into rich representations of the physical world. You'll work across camera, LiDAR, radar, audio, and other sensor modalities to build perception systems capable of operating in complex, dynamic real-world environments.

## What they're looking for

- Deep expertise in machine learning and computer vision, with substantial experience building sophisticated perception systems
- Strong understanding of modern deep learning architectures and their application to visual and multimodal perception
- Experience working with one or more real-world sensor modalities such as cameras, LiDAR, radar, audio, depth sensors, or related systems
- Experience with sensor fusion, multimodal learning, 3D perception, scene understanding, or related areas
- Strong understanding of the full ML lifecycle, including data strategy, training, model architecture, evaluation, optimization, and deployment
- Experience designing ML systems that operate under real-world latency, compute, reliability, and safety constraints

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