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Engineering Manager, Perception and Machine Learning

Havoc AI · Remote · Remote

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About Havoc AI

HavocAI is an artificial intelligence company that offers maritime autonomy solutions to the Defense and Commercial markets. Backed by Drive Capital.

About the role

As the Engineering Manager, Perception & Machine Learning, you will lead the team responsible for developing the perception and machine learning capabilities that enable HavocAI’s autonomous systems to understand and operate within the world around them.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

Havoc is a leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy. Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. Havoc connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc optimizes mission performance and minimizes human risk.

Havoc was founded in 2024 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Learn more at Havoc: All-Domain Collaborative Autonomy .

As the Engineering Manager, Perception & Machine Learning, you will lead the team responsible for developing the perception and machine learning capabilities that enable HavocAI’s autonomous systems to understand and operate within the world around them.

This is a people leadership and technical management role for someone with a strong foundation in perception, machine learning, computer vision, sensor fusion, or robotics. You will be responsible for building and developing the team, setting priorities, driving execution, and ensuring perception capabilities move effectively from research and...

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