Senior Manager, Perception (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Manager, Perception (AI): Responsible for leading high-impact perception teams, building hirify.global’s world-class 3D environment model from multi-modal sensor data, and setting the technical roadmap. Focus on optimizing algorithms to run efficiently on real-life data and in simulation, while remaining at the cutting edge of AI and perception trends.

Location: Hybrid, Foster City, CA

Salary: $277,000 - $389,000 a year

Company

hirify.global is reinventing personal transportation to make the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable.

What you will do

• Build and lead a group of managers and engineers, and be responsible for the team’s roadmap, productivity, execution, and impact within the company.
• Set the vision for, grow, and lead a team of talented software engineers in the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, while providing the team with technical leadership.
• Collaborate with engineers and leaders across a variety of teams to brainstorm and accelerate the development of perception capabilities.
• Provide clear summaries, progress, and recommendations to our executive leadership team.
• Establish best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making.
• Stay on top of industry and academic trends in AI and perception, making sure hirify.global remains at the cutting edge of both algorithms and their implementation at scale.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of computer vision systems and AI software stacks.
• 5+ years of extensive leadership experience, leading teams of 20+
• 10+ years of experience in computer vision, machine learning and related technologies.
• Strong leadership skills suitable for recruiting, leading, growing, and managing technical team members in solving a challenging problem, and building a critical component of a real-time system.
• Recent experience in implementing vision & perception algorithms.
• Expertise in implementing autonomy solutions and deploying real-world systems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with perception of autonomous vehicles or similar robots
• Hands-on experience having deployed real products or platforms into the real world, and intimately understanding the challenges of working with complex systems
• Involvement in validation or evaluation of risk and/or safety-critical systems
• Knowledge of GPU and/or TPU programming (CUDA, TensorRT, etc.)

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off.
• hirify.global Stock Appreciation Rights and Amazon RSUs.
• Health insurance, long-term care insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, and life insurance.