Principal Perception Architect

Job Summary

We are seeking a Principal Perception Architect / Team Lead to define and lead the end-to-end perception architecture for advanced autonomous machine systems. This role will be responsible for shaping how machines sense, understand, represent, validate, and act on the external world in real operating environments.

What You Will Do

• Define and own the end-to-end perception architecture for autonomous machine systems, including sensor integration, sensor fusion, perception ML, scene understanding, world model inputs, data flow, validation, and safety analysis.
• Lead the Perception Architecture Team by setting technical direction, aligning architecture priorities, guiding key design decisions, and ensuring the team works as one cohesive architecture function.
• Create the perception technical roadmap that connects near-term product needs with long-term autonomy capability, scalability, reliability, and platform reuse.
• Drive architecture decisions and tradeoffs across perception accuracy, latency, compute usage, sensor coverage, cost, power, robustness, safety, and deployability on edge platforms.
• Ensure perception architecture supports real-world operating conditions, including sensor degradation, harsh environments, blind spots, poor visibility, machine vibration, calibration drift, compute limits, and uncertain or incomplete data.
• Partner cross-functionally with Edge Architecture, Simulation, Data, Machine Platform, Safety, Validation, Product, and Robotics teams to ensure perception capabilities are deployable, replayable, traceable, testable, and ready for real-world autonomy use.

Qualifications

• Analytical Thinking: Expert Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
• Platform Architecture: Expert knowledge of technologies and methods to design processing mechanisms and roadmaps to execute business application systems; ability to design these roadmaps and deploy supportive interfaces for end-users to access related systems, in accordance with standards and processes.
• Data Architecture: Expert knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints on how to integrate data resources for business processes and functional support. Ability to utilize design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical design.
• Effective Communications: Expert understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Organizational Leadership: Expert knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.

Additional Details

• This position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Irving, TX office (Dallas).
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
• Posting Dates: July 21, 2026 - August 3, 2026.