Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. C&D Talent Advisory is representing a client that is building intelligent software for autonomous security systems. The Perception Engineer will build and own computer vision systems for autonomous robots, transforming AI models into reliable production systems that operate in real-world environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy cross-camera object re-identification (ReID) systems for people and vehicles
- Build high-performance object detection and multi-object tracking pipelines
- Integrate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for scene understanding and operator intelligence
- Develop robust real-time video pipelines using RTSP and WebRTC
- Optimize AI models for NVIDIA Jetson and edge devices using TensorRT, quantization, pruning, and latency optimization
- Evaluate, fine-tune, and train computer vision models where required
- Build scalable image and video data pipelines for training and evaluation
- Collaborate closely with Robotics and Software Engineering teams to integrate perception into autonomous systems
- Continuously improve model reliability, performance, and deployment efficiency
Skills
- 3+ years of experience building and deploying production Computer Vision or Machine Learning systems
- Strong expertise in object detection, multi-object tracking, and cross-camera ReID
- Hands-on experience with Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
- Experience building real-time multi-camera video processing pipelines using RTSP and WebRTC
- Proven experience deploying AI models on edge hardware using TensorRT, quantization, pruning, or similar optimization techniques
- Strong Python and PyTorch (or JAX) skills
- Experience building reliable ML systems with strong software engineering practices
- Experience managing large image and video datasets for training and evaluation
- Builder mindset with strong ownership and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving startup environment
- NVIDIA DeepStream
- MLOps (model versioning, CI/CD, monitoring)
- RAG and LLM-based systems
- Robotics, autonomous systems, surveillance, or defense
- Edge AI deployment
- Air-gapped or on-premise environments
- Publications in CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, or ICLR
Benefits
- Visa and relocation support
- Work alongside world-class founders and AI researchers
- Significant ownership over the perception stack from day one
- Opportunity to build production AI systems deployed in the physical world
- International, collaborative, engineering-first culture
- Direct impact on the future of autonomous robotics and intelligent security
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