# Principal Software Engineer, Perception

About the Role Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company and set the technical direction for its perception systems. You will help autonomous vehicles interpret complex ocean environments and provide reliable information for safe downstream autonomy. What You'll Do Define architecture for sensor fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation. Integrate radar, cameras, and other sensor modalities into a coherent, reliable information stream. Partner with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to support safe vehicle behavior. Translate research and advanced algorithms into production systems that meet sensor, compute, latency, and environmental constraints. Guide technical direction through architecture decisions, reviews, hands-on problem solving, mentorship, and hiring. Develop data labeling strategies, ground-truth datasets, and evaluation frameworks. What We're Looking For At least 8 years of experience in perception or robotics engineering, operating at Staff level or above. Experience owning and deploying production perception systems on autonomous vehicles or robots. Deep expertise in sensor fusion, localization, st

- **Id**: 4028540
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-principal-software-engineer-perception-6>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Alameda, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T17:41:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:43:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
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- **Description chars**: 2063
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- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4415660
- **Name**: True Talent Solutions Partners
- **Domain**: truetalentsolutionspartners.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/true-talent-solutions-partners>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 300000
- **Max**: 380000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 380000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no
- **SLAM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:47:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 83; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 83 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 43
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.474
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:4, agency, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 380000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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