# Senior Software Engineer, Perception (R5420)

Hiring organization: [Shield AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/shield-ai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/179f1592-3fc5-4610-8cb2-a81a5970f0a0

Listed on Shield AI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Salary: 163200 – 244800 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves building and deploying machine learning models for autonomous systems, focusing on computer vision and vision-language capabilities. It suits engineers who want to move cutting-edge AI research into production systems while working cross-functionally with researchers and autonomy teams.

_Our summary, not Shield AI's wording._

## Skills named

Computer Vision, Data Pipelines, Machine Learning, Model Deployment, Python

## Required

- Develop and deploy advanced machine learning models for perception
- Own features from model development through production deployment
- Work with data pipelines and supervised fine-tuning workflows
- Build evaluation frameworks for perception systems

## Nice to have

- Experience with vision-language or vision-language-action models
- Background in autonomous systems
- Experience deploying ML models in complex operational environments

Apply on Shield AI's site: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/3587ad7b-e57a-4dea-8e14-db52d1808f40/apply