Perception Engineer

Job Summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a world leader in remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars. The Perception group at GA-ASI is seeking a skilled engineer to design and implement a real-time Dynamic Environment Model (DEM) for multi-sensor fusion, track management, and sensor resource management.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Build and optimize real-time DEM data structures: Spatiotemporal voxel grids / occupancy & belief fields, confidence, decay, and provenance tracking
• Implement deterministic fusion + perception infrastructure: Sensor synchronization, buffering, time alignment, calibration
• Support tracking engineers implementing IMM-EKF/UKF, JPDA, and data association models
• Design and maintain low-latency transport (ZMQ/DDS/ROS2, shared memory, lock-free queues)
• Develop tools for: Replay and Monte-Carlo evaluation, field test debug & metrics, live introspection and visualization of DEM states & tracks
• Collaborate with: Tracking & state estimation engineers, ML engineers building feature and occupancy networks, autonomy stack and mission systems teams

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's, master's degree or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive machine learning engineering experience as follows; five or more years of experience with a bachelor's degree or three or more years of experience with a master's degree.
• May substitute equivalent machine learning engineer experience in lieu of education.
• Strong C++ and Python experience.
• Experience with: Multi-sensor fusion (IR/Radar/ESM ideal), real-time systems, concurrency, memory optimization, Kalman-family filters and uncertainty modeling.
• Familiarity with: JPDA / multi-target tracking frameworks, DDS / ZMQ / ROS2 or similar messaging, spatiotemporal mapping or occupancy grid systems, STAP/DPCA basics or RF signal chain awareness.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD security clearance required.