Director – Autonomy Perception

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Serve as a technical thought leader to advocate for May Mobility’s mission, vision, values, and company priorities while developing and implementing the autonomy strategy alongside fellow executives and engineering leaders.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with leaders in Vehicle Engineering, Product, and Operations to address and deploy solutions for autonomy perception challenges.

• Drive innovative advancements in May’s perception technology, achieving measurable enhancements in object detection, classification, tracking, and prediction.

• Ensure the efficient and effective operation of May’s core perception technologies in commercial deployments, including supporting the timely triage and resolution of related issues.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant research areas, including machine learning, end-to-end learned systems, tracking systems, multi-sensor fusion, and behavior prediction.

• Lead the design and specification of next-generation sensor suites to enhance the performance of May’s perception systems while optimizing costs. Collaborate with systems and hardware teams for prototyping and evaluation of future systems.

• Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor autonomy performance.

• Identify critical gaps and challenges within May’s autonomy perception technology.

• Create and implement a roadmap to address key challenges and collaborate with other autonomy leaders to align this roadmap with the objectives of other functions.

• Establish monthly, quarterly, and yearly milestones to facilitate iterative improvements in both short and long-term performance.

• Take ownership of the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, providing technical leadership to the team.

• Assist in setting hiring targets for the perception team. Conduct interviews, hire, and manage a diverse group of skilled perception engineers and scientists.

• Oversee the escalation of critical issues and opportunities within the autonomy team’s leadership, delivering clear recommendations to enhance the team's effectiveness in alignment with company priorities and strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience.

• PhD or master’s degree in a relevant and highly technical field (e.g., robotics, computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, physics).

• Proven track record of solving complex autonomy issues as a principal investigator, staff or principal engineer, or director (or equivalent role).

• 7+ years of software-focused engineering experience addressing challenging robotics problems in mission-critical software and/or robotic systems.

• Experience leading a team of 10+ engineers, setting goals, leading by example, and managing challenging situations and failures.

• Prior experience as an individual contributor successfully developing and deploying innovative solutions in the autonomous vehicle or related industry.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have cohabited for at least one year are also eligible to participate.

• Access to Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts.

• Attractive retirement benefits, featuring an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.

• Generous paid parental leave, accompanied by a phased return to work.

• Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.

• Total Wellness Program offering numerous resources to support overall wellbeing.