Perception Engineer – Computer Vision & Robotics (C-UAS)

Askari Defense develops autonomous kinetic intercept systems to counter unmanned aerial and robotic threats. The Perception Engineer will design, optimize, deploy, and maintain real-time computer vision models for aerial target detection and tracking, integrating them into autonomous vehicles through ROS 2, C++, CUDA, and embedded edge computing. The role also involves field testing and rapidly incorporating collected data into new model iterations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, train, and deploy real-time vision models for detection, classification, tracking, and state estimation on fast-moving aerial targets
• Optimize networks and CV algorithms with CUDA and TensorRT to hit end-to-end latency on NVIDIA Jetson Orin-class hardware
• Integrate perception into our autonomy stack using ROS 2 and write production-quality C++ for real-time processing
• Deploy, benchmark, and maintain models on embedded edge compute aboard autonomous vehicles
• Join field tests and data collection, then turn what you see on the range into the next model iteration within days, not quarters