aim · Seattle
ABOUT US AIM builds autonomy for the real world: robots that move mountains. Our systems bring together software, hardware, and robotics to turn heavy equipment into intelligent machines that reshape how earthmoving is done. We're looking for a Principal Perception Hardware Engineer to own the sensor system architecture for our autonomy platform, from choosing sensing modalities and sensors through placement, requirements, validation, and production readiness. You will set the technical direction across hardware, perception, and vehicle teams, make the final calls on sensor-suite trade-offs that shape our multi-year roadmap, and help build our sensor systems team and capability from the ground up. ABOUT YOU You are comfortable with ambiguity. Off-road heavy equipment has no established sensing playbook, and you're excited to write one: defining the standards, not just following them. You own outcomes in the field. You go to job sites, diagnose problems on the machine, and stay accountable for results through deployment rather than handing off a design. You make pragmatic decisions. You balance the ideal architecture against cost, ruggedness, retrofit constraints, and speed, and you make clear calls without perfect data. You influence without authority. You align perception, hardware, software, and field teams on sensor and compute decisions, and you explain trade-offs clearly to leadership. You think at the level of the whole system. You turn what autonomy needs into concrete sensor and compute system requirements, and you set standards that guide the company's long-term direction while developing the engineers around you. WHAT YOU WILL OWN Sensor system architecture - Own the end-to-end sensor architecture for the autonomy platform: modality selection, sensor selection, placement, and integration. - Run trade studies on coverage, occlusion, performance, cost, and reliability, and make the final call on sensor-suite trade-offs. - Turn product, business , customer an…
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