# Lead ML/Perception Engineer at May Mobility

- Company: May Mobility
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://maymobility.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: USA - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-06-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/maymobility/jobs/8582594002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/may-mobility-lead-ml-perception-engineer/

## About the role

May Mobility is entering an exciting phase of growth as we expand our first-of-its-kind autonomous shuttle and mobility services across the nation. Launched in 2017 with a strong team of experienced roboticists and software engineers with decades of experience fielding robotic systems in the wild, May Mobility is looking to expand its team of robotics engineers with a background in robotics or autonomous vehicles.

## What they're looking for

- Proven ability to architect and evolve large-scale perception or autonomy systems, balancing performance, latency, safety, and long-term maintainability
- Strong grasp of perception robustness and reliability engineering, including degraded-sensor operation, adverse-weather handling, fault detection, and graceful degradation
- Experience with scene/scenario understanding and runtime activation logic (e.g., context classification, ODD monitoring, behavior triggering)
- Familiar with ML development cycle, deployment, and optimization
- Deep understanding of data: data pipeline, data balancing, data mining, and data-driven performance improvement
- Knowledge of multimodal learning techniques, including contrastive learning and prompt engineering for zero-shot visual recognition

Tags: Autonomy Engineering