# Perception & Sensor Fusion Engineer at Saildrone

- Company: Saildrone
- What the company does: Saildrone is a maritime defense company that builds autonomous systems to give decision-makers and warfighters the enduring advantage to outpace adversaries. Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://saildrone.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Alameda, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://www.saildrone.com/careers/available-jobs?gh_jid=4413094009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/saildrone-perception-and-sensor-fusion-engineer/

## About the role

Saildrone’s manufacturing and R&D headquarters are located in Alameda, CA, with business development and sales operations in Washington, DC, and deployment hubs in Europe and the Middle East. By combining proven autonomous operations, edge computing, advanced sensing, renewable power, and the most advanced and robust unmanned surface technology on the planet, Saildrone is shaping how the Navy of the future operates.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering and algorithm-development skills in Python and/or C++
- Hands-on experience with perception, computer vision, sensor fusion, tracking, or related robotics algorithms
- Experience working with real sensor data and developing systems that must perform reliably in uncontrolled environments
- Strong understanding of one or more areas such as object detection, multi-object tracking, state estimation, sensor fusion, or computer vision
- Experience developing and evaluating machine-learning models for perception
- Ability to turn noisy sensor observations into reliable, measurable system outputs

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