Perception Director

TEEMA • Full-time • Clarksburg, MD, US • $150k - $200k / year • 2w ago

Job Title: Perception Director Job ID: 80996 Location: Clarksburg, Maryland What you will be doing:

Own the strategy around design, development, and deployment of the perception system for AutoDrive, including sensor fusion, object detection, object classification, semantic segmentation, and tracking and prediction.

Build and scale a high-performance team of engineers focused on multimodal perception-camera, LiDAR, radar, and more.

Drive architectural decisions and ensure the perception stack is modular, testable, and performant in real-time environments.

Collaborate closely with Platform, Behavior Generation, Localization, and C3 teams to ensure seamless integration with upstream and downstream systems.

Collaborate with the Data team on data collection, annotation strategies, model training, and continuous validation pipelines for real-world robustness.

Balance cutting-edge research with pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to deliver reliable and maintainable systems.

Define hiring needs, establish team culture, and mentor engineers at all levels.

What you must have:

Degree in Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.

Proven track record building and deploying real-time perception systems in production environments (autonomy, robotics, defense, or similar).

10+ years of experience in technical engineering roles, with at least 5+ years leading high-performance teams.

Strong grasp of computer vision, sensor fusion, probabilistic filtering, and modern machine learning techniques.

Experience working with large datasets and training infrastructure for perception models.

Familiarity with real-time systems, latency constraints, and robustness in edge environments.

U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com

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