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Senior Perception Software Engineer

Seasats · San Diego, CA · On-site

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About Seasats

Missions completed for defense, science, and commercial customers around the world. Backed by Techstars.

About the role

Seasats' vehicles operate in highly remote and often communications-limited environments. To complete persistent missions at scale, the vehicles must be able to perceive and reason about the world around them without humans in the loop. Seasats has built a reliable and increasingly intelligent autonomy stack incorporating onboard sensors and processing.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years on perception problems in fielded systems
  • Deep experience processing real-time sensor data (especially camera, radar, and/or LiDAR) on embedded or compute-limited platforms
  • Command of classical perception algorithms: clustering, segmentation, filtering, sensor fusion, and probabilistic tracking (e.g., Kalman or particle filters)
  • Familiarity with modern computer vision models and comfort working alongside ML-based components
  • Expert-level Python, with deep fluency in the scientific stack (NumPy, SciPy, OpenCV) and a track record of profiling and optimizing numerical code
  • Solid grounding in 3D geometry: coordinate frames, transforms, and sensor calibration
More about this role

Role: Senior Perception Software Engineer

Seasats' vehicles operate in highly remote and often communications-limited environments. To complete persistent missions at scale, the vehicles must be able to perceive and reason about the world around them without humans in the loop. Seasats has built a reliable and increasingly intelligent autonomy stack incorporating onboard sensors and processing.

In this role, you'll immerse yourself in the perception system at the heart of that stack: the algorithms that turn raw radar, camera, and other sensor data into a reliable, real-time picture of the vessel's environment. You'll take algorithms from design to deployment: evaluating sensors, building detection and tracking pipelines, optimizing for embedded hardware, and validating against real-world maritime conditions. Your work will directly determine how safely and intelligently our vessels navigate dynamic ocean environments.

As a senior member of the team, you'll help set the architecture and technical direction of the perception stack and raise the bar for how perception software is designed, tested, and fielded across the company. You'll work independently on hard algorithmic problems...

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