Perception Engineer IV - Project

Perception Engineer IV - Project Based

This is a project-based employee role supporting the development, integration, and validation of ASI's autonomous reach stacker platforms. Development phases of this nature typically continue through project completion, often spanning two to four years, although scope and duration are determined by business and customer needs.

The Perception Engineer IV develops and advances perception systems that enable ASI's autonomous reach stackers to understand container-yard environments, detect and track surrounding objects, identify containers and stacking locations, and safely perform material-handling operations. This role works with cameras, LiDAR, radar, GPS/GNSS, inertial sensors, and other sensing technologies to support environmental awareness, container detection, equipment tracking, precision alignment, obstacle avoidance, and autonomous task execution.

As a Level IV engineer within ASI's five-level engineering structure, this position independently leads complex perception features and subsystem initiatives from technical definition through integration and field validation. The role influences perception architecture, resolves difficult cross-system problems, and provides technical guidance to other engineers while collaborating with GNC, embedded software, systems, test, and field operations teams. Broader platform strategy and organization-wide technical direction remain aligned with engineering leadership and Level V technical authorities.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, integrate, and validate advanced perception algorithms for autonomous reach stacker applications
• Lead complex perception features involving object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, obstacle detection, free-space identification, and environmental modeling
• Develop capabilities for detecting and tracking shipping containers, trucks, trailers, chassis, reach stackers, personnel, buildings, fences, and other yard objects
• Develop perception solutions that support container identification, stack-position recognition, pickup and placement verification, and precision vehicle alignment
• Process and fuse data from cameras, LiDAR, radar, GPS/GNSS, inertial sensors, encoders, and other vehicle systems
• Develop environmental models that support navigation, motion planning, container handling, stacking, loading, unloading, and yard-management workflows
• Lead defined perception work streams from requirements development through architecture, implementation, integration, testing, and release
• Contribute to perception architecture and technical design decisions for autonomous reach stacker platforms
• Establish technical approaches, performance metrics, and acceptance criteria for complex perception capabilities
• Integrate perception software with autonomous vehicle platforms, embedded computing systems, vehicle interfaces, and supporting autonomy software
• Evaluate perception performance using recorded datasets, simulation, software-in-the-loop testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and full-vehicle field validation
• Analyze large datasets to identify false detections, missed detections, tracking failures, alignment errors, environmental limitations, and system-level edge cases
• Develop and improve automated workflows for data collection, labeling, replay, regression testing, visualization, and performance analysis
• Lead troubleshooting of complex issues involving sensor calibration, timing, synchronization, coordinate transformations, vehicle movement, computing performance, and system integration
• Guide sensor selection, placement, mounting, configuration, calibration, and validation activities on reach stacker platforms
• Optimize perception algorithms for real-time execution on embedded CPUs, GPUs, and other computing platforms
• Collaborate with GNC engineers to ensure perception outputs support safe navigation, motion planning, obstacle avoidance, container approach, and precision positioning
• Partner with systems engineers to define interfaces, requirements, failure responses, and operational constraints for perception subsystems
• Work with test engineers and field testers to…