Principal Perception Hardware Engineer
AIM, Seattle
What you need
About you
You are comfortable with ambiguity. Off-road heavy equipment has no established sensing playbook, and you're excited to write one: defining the standards, not just following them.
You own outcomes in the field. You go to job sites, diagnose problems on the machine, and stay accountable for results through deployment rather than handing off a design.
You make pragmatic decisions. You balance the ideal architecture against cost, ruggedness, retrofit constraints, and speed, and you make clear calls without perfect data.
You influence without authority. You align perception, hardware, software, and field teams on sensor and compute decisions, and you explain trade-offs clearly to leadership.
You think at the level of the whole system. You turn what autonomy needs into concrete sensor and compute system requirements, and you set standards that guide the company's long-term direction while developing the engineers around you.