# Principal Software Engineer, Perception

About the Role Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company, where you will set technical direction for systems that help autonomous vehicles operate safely in complex ocean environments. You will lead the development of production perception capabilities, from sensor fusion and localization to tracking and uncertainty estimation. What You'll Do Define the architecture and technical direction for the perception stack, including sensor fusion, localization, tracking, mapping, and uncertainty estimation. Integrate radar, cameras, and other sensor modalities into reliable information streams for downstream autonomy. Partner with autonomy, navigation, and applied machine learning teams to support safe vehicle behavior. Translate research and algorithms into robust production software that meets edge-compute, latency, sensor, and environmental constraints. Lead architecture decisions, technical reviews, and hands-on problem solving while mentoring senior and staff engineers. Guide data labeling, ground-truth dataset development, and evaluation frameworks. Contribute technical leadership to hiring and help grow the perception team. What We're Looking For At least 8 year

- **Id**: 4296886
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-principal-software-engineer-perception-7>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **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**: 2026-11-13T23:15:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T01:37:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2307
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T01:37:30Z

## 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**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T03:35:43Z

## Pay

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

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