Engineer VII

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. is a developer of unmanned aircraft systems and advanced programs for multiple customers. The company is seeking a Perception Algorithms Lead to develop and deploy algorithms for sensing, detection, tracking, classification, and multi-sensor fusion in real-time and resource-constrained environments. The role also involves validating perception performance, optimizing implementations, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of perception algorithms for detection, tracking, and classification using RF, EO/IR, and other sensor modalities
• Design and implement multi-sensor fusion pipelines for robust state estimation and object tracking
• Develop and train models for feature extraction and classification directly from sensor data
• Apply probabilistic methods, statistical inference, and data-driven modeling techniques to noisy, real-world datasets
• Implement and optimize algorithms using modern computational frameworks and hardware acceleration
• Deploy algorithms in real-time and embedded environments with strict latency and compute constraints
• Define perception outputs (detections, tracks, classifications, confidence metrics) for downstream system consumers
• Validate performance using real-world data, simulation, and test events ​​​​​​​
• Mentor engineers and establish best practices across perception algorithm development