Senior Edge AI Perception Engineer

AION ROBOTICS CORPORATION – Senior Edge AI Perception Engineer (Arvada, CO – Full Time)

AION Robotics builds best‑in‑class autonomous vehicles designed for critical infrastructure monitoring, construction, mining, and energy. Vehicles operate in the toughest off‑highway environments where safety, accuracy, and efficiency are paramount.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Edge AI Perception Engineer to design, optimize, and deploy cutting‑edge deep learning models for real‑time autonomous vehicle perception systems. The role involves building ultra‑efficient pipelines for neural network inference on NVIDIA embedded platforms (Orin, Thor), integrating perception outputs with sensor fusion (LiDAR, camera), and pushing the limits of latency, throughput, and accuracy in real‑world autonomous systems.

• Build and manage optimized neural network pipelines tailored for edge deployment in autonomous vehicle systems.
• Implement, compress, and optimize models (pruning, quantization, scheduling) to run on GPU, DLA, and Tensor cores.
• Work with architectures including monocular depth models, YoloX, People Net, Res Net, and others.
• Leverage NVIDIA Deep Stream, TensorRT, CUDA, and TAO Toolkit to create high‑performance perception pipelines.
• Manage model/hardware resource allocation across GPU/DLA for real‑time scheduling and execution.
• Optimize pipelines from sensor to detections meeting ultra‑low latency constraints on embedded devices such as NVIDIA Orin & Thor.
• Apply real‑time geometric transforms to object detections and semantic segmentation results for geo‑referencing and LiDAR point cloud filtering.
• CUDA accelerated 3D terrain mapping.
• Develop and maintain automated data collection pipelines, including dataset formatting, labeling workflows (CVAT), and fine‑tuning for custom training.
• Implement real‑time dewarped camera pipelines using GMSL drivers, VIC, and ARGUS APIs on embedded platforms.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to achieve consistent calibration and synchronization across multiple sensors.
• Stay up to date with bleeding‑edge advancements in neural networks, edge AI optimization, and autonomous perception.
• Rapidly prototype and validate new models and methods for production deployment.

• Direct real‑world experience in computer vision, deep learning, or edge AI systems.
• Strong proficiency with CUDA, TensorRT, NVIDIA Deep Stream, TAO Toolkit, PyTorch/Tensor Flow.
• Demonstrated experience with model optimization techniques (e.g., pruning, quantization, distillation, scheduling).
• Hands‑on experience deploying AI pipelines to embedded edge platforms (preferably NVIDIA Jetson Orin or Thor).
• Expertise in object detection, semantic segmentation, and depth estimation.
• Solid understanding of real‑time embedded system constraints and low‑latency optimization strategies.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.

• Experience with low‑level camera system integration, including:
• Intrinsic & extrinsic calibration algorithms.
• Multi‑camera synchronization and fusion.
• Familiarity with sensor fusion pipelines combining camera, LiDAR, and IMU.
• Direct experience working in autonomous vehicles, robotics, ROS2 or safety‑critical perception systems.

• Be part of a team pushing the limits of real‑time edge AI for autonomous robotics.
• Shape the future of perception in construction, mining, energy, and defense sectors.
• Build a world‑class, high‑ownership AI engineering team.
• Competitive compensation, equity opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.

Senior Edge AI Perception Engineer: $ – $ per year.

Benefits include:

• Restricted Stock Options.
• Aggressive annual bonus & base salary reviews.
• Personalized PTO.
• Wellness program.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage; short‑ and long‑term disability insurance; and life insurance.

AION Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment is governed by merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by any protected status.