Senior Perception Engineer, Facial Recognition

Company: Sauron Industries, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Who We AreSauron protects your family and home, bringing the innovations of autonomous robots and self-driving cars to residential security. Our team is led by veteran entrepreneurs and roboticists, alumni of Zipline, Tesla, and Cloud Kitchens. Sauron has raised an $18M seed round led by A* and Atomic with participation from other leading venture capital firms and angel investors, including 8VC and Flock Safety CEO Garret Langley.The Role - Perception Engineer, Facial Recognition
We Value

• Collaboration, pair programming, and teamwork.
• Making small improvements and shipping code to production continuously.
• Taking ownership across the stack.
• Test-driven development, and refactoring regularly to keep our codebases healthy.You Will Contribute By
  • Leading development efforts on facial recognition systems.
  • Extracting the maximum value from our sensors, fusing all observations available while being robust to occlusions, poor lighting and disguises
  • Leading the collection, labeling, and management of datasets to train and evaluate ML models for facial recognition.
  • Leveraging state of the art models for facial recognition and pushing them to the limits of their performance in this problem domain.
  • Performing trade studies to understand the value of new sensors or processing approaches to system reliability.
  • Analyzing the performance of systems both in simulation and using data from deployments in the field to find headroom and devise solutions to reduce it.
  • Probing the inner workings of neural networks to uncover and mitigate edge case failures.
  • Designing systems that can understand and communicate when they are not working well.
  • Contributing to machine learning infrastructure (e.g. distributed training, continuous model integration, data management, and evaluation of production systems).
    Your Background Includes
    • 5+ years of professional experience with machine learning for hardware products in a safety-critical field, e.g. aerospace, robotics, medical devices, autonomous vehicles.
    • Passionate about ML, both robust engineering and research challenges.
    • A deep understanding of the theory and practice of modern machine learning techniques.
    • A clear grasp of basic linear algebra, optimization, statistics, and algorithms.
    • Experienced at all facets of training and using deep-learning models, including writing custom layers/operations, optimizing networks for inference on edge compute, reproducibility and evaluation.
    • Extensive experience working with Pytorch, Tensorflow or other modern deep learning frameworks.
    • Familiar with the use of VLMs and other multi-modal models for semantic scene understanding and description.
    • Able to solve complex problems with little supervision.
    • Excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
    • A generalist mindset and can dive in wherever the bottlenecks are, whether that be spooling up cloud compute services to optimizing for embedded systems.
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