Perception Engineer

Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on autonomous defense platforms. The Perception Engineer will design, train, and deploy state-of-the-art vision and multi-sensor perception systems to enable navigation, targeting, and automatic target recognition. This role involves deep learning, geometric vision, and embedded performance. They are focused on refining detection, segmentation, and tracking architectures for EO/IR and multi-spectral imagery.

Requirements

• Production C++ on Linux and Python for ML/tooling
• Strong with modern detection/segmentation/tracking (e.g., Retina/FCOS/DETR/Mask2D/Video models) and training/fine-tuning in PyTorch
• Proven experience building large, diverse datasets; labeling/QA pipelines; augmentation; experiment tracking; and reproducible training
• Hands-on with model compression (INT8/FP16), runtime optimization, and real-time constraints
• EO/IR imagery experience and working with real flight/test data in challenging environments
• BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE/Robotics or similar, or equivalent experience

Benefits

• health insurance
• retirement plans
• opportunities for professional development