Perception Engineer, Staff
mid$250K – $400K
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About this role
Location: Onsite — Austin, TX
Employment Type: Direct Hire, Full‑Time
Job Title: Perception Lead, Staff Eng
Company Overview
9 Mothers Defense develops AI-enabled systems to counter unmanned aerial threats. Our first product, EDDA, is an autonomous counter-sUAS point-defense platform designed to detect, track, and neutralize Group 1 drone threats. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Position Summary
9 Mothers is seeking a Perception Lead to own the computer vision and machine learning stack that powers target detection, classification, and tracking in our counter-sUAS systems. The Perception Lead is responsible for the research, development, and deployment of the perception pipeline that enables EDDA to engage aerial threats in real time.…
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For this role: python, rust, c++, drone, pytorch…
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