# Senior Perception Engineer at Sauron Home

- Company: Sauron Home
- What the company does: Our home security platform reliably identifies, understands, and deters threats. With Sauron, you always know that everything is under control. Backed by Abstract Ventures.
- Company website: https://sauron.systems
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/sauron-systems/am9icG9zdDr96ioy0bkqnVunXphnmYAc?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sauron-home-senior-perception-engineer/

## About the role

Perception is the foundation of the Sauron product. Every decision the system makes (what to show a homeowner, what to disregard, what to escalate) depends on whether we have correctly understood what took place outside the home. We are seeking the person who will own this domain. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Collaboration, pair programming, and teamwork
- Taking ownership across the stack
- Test-driven development, and refactoring regularly to keep our codebases healthy
- Evolving the pipeline architecture so cameras can come and go, and configuration can change, without disrupting live video or losing object identity
- Setting the boundary between systems and models. You decide what belongs in the compiled service, what belongs in the inference graph, and where the performance ceiling really is
- Owning perception quality end to end. Defining what good looks like in numbers: evaluation data, a regression harness, and a defensible story on model choice for our hardware


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