Senior Perception Engineer

Sauron is a home security company developing next-generation protection through artificial intelligence, sensor technology, and nonlethal deterrence. The Senior Perception Engineer will own the perception architecture, define sensing and model strategy, improve system accuracy, latency, and reliability, and lead technical direction across perception, hardware, cloud, and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Evolving the pipeline architecture so cameras can come and go, and configuration can change, without disrupting live video or losing object identity
• Setting the boundary between systems and models. You decide what belongs in the compiled service, what belongs in the inference graph, and where the performance ceiling really is
• Owning perception quality end to end. Defining what good looks like in numbers: evaluation data, a regression harness, and a defensible story on model choice for our hardware
• Extracting the maximum value from our sensors. Fusing every observation available while staying robust to occlusion, poor lighting, and deliberate evasion
• Taking the service from "runs" to "trustworthy unattended." Failure detection, graceful degradation, and observability good enough that we know why something broke without a site visit
• Closing the loop from the field. Using deployment data to find headroom, and building the dataset and evaluation infrastructure that makes that repeatable
• Leading the work and the people. Setting direction across perception, reviewing the hard changes, and owning the interfaces perception exposes to the rest of the product