# Perception Engineer

Location: Onsite - Austin, TX Employment Type: Direct Hire, Full-Time Job Title: Perception Engineer About 9 Mothers The modern battlefield has changed. Cheap, autonomous suicide drones have turned the tactical advantage upside down, and the world is looking for a solution. At 9 Mothers, we aren’t just "innovating"-we are building the shield. Backed by top-tier investors, we develop AI powered machines designed to intercept and neutralize Group 1/sUAS threats in real-time. Our flagship product is a low-power, counter-drone system built for the edge-on vehicles, at bases, or in a soldier's pack. Why 9 Mothers? While others build for "awareness" or "long-term research," we build for the immediate survival of those in harm’s way. We are a team of hackers, engineers, and mission-driven builders who value field-ready capability over polished slide decks. If you want to see your code or hardware in the field next month-not next year-this is your playground. Position Summary 9 Mothers is seeking a Perception Engineer to own the computer vision and machine learning stack that powers target detection, classification, and tracking in our counter-sUAS systems. The Perception Lead is responsib

- **Id**: 738351
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/9mothers-perception-engineer-senior>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-23T19:38:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:11:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 199
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6350
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Relocation assistance, Unlimited PTO, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Drones & UAVs, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 669487
- **Name**: 9 Mothers
- **Domain**: 9mothers.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/9mothers>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 110000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: yes
- **Sim-to-Real** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 199

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T11:51:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.561
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 199
- **Expected fill days**: 77
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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