# Senior Software Engineer, Perception Architecture at Stack Machine

- Company: Stack Machine
- What the company does: Stack AV - Revolutionizing Transportation Through AI. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.stackav.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA or Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stackav/jobs/5188096007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/stack-machine-senior-software-engineer-perception-architecture/

## About the role

The Perception Architecture team is responsible for tackling complex, cross-cutting issues in Stack AV’s approach to perception development and accelerating our delivery of perception capabilities. Many problems in the self-driving trucking industry are not well represented in the literature, requiring novel approaches or formulations to tackle challenging perception problems for the product.

## What they're looking for

- BS (with 4+ years of experience), MS (with 2+ years of experience), or PhD (with 1+ years of experience) in a perception-related field, such as Robotics, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning
- Extensive experience architecting, training, and evaluating deep learning models for challenging problem spaces
- Track record of driving applied research or engineering projects from conception and experimentation to successful productization
- Strong experience in software engineering, machine learning algorithm design, and building data/metrics pipelines for ML development
- Fluency in Python and hands-on experience with C++
- Experience delivering detection, segmentation, tracking, or other perception solutions for real-time robotic applications, with prior experience in sensor fusion being highly desirable

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