Director, Autonomy Perception

Role Description

The Director of Perception will be responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and technical roadmap of the Autonomy Perception team at May Mobility. This position reports to the Sr. Director of Autonomy and is responsible for providing world-class leadership to our autonomy engineering managers and engineers.

• Be a technical thought leader to champion May Mobility’s mission, vision, values, and company priorities.
• Work cross-functionally with Vehicle Engineering, Product, and Operations leaders to solve and deploy solutions to autonomy perception challenges.
• Deliver innovative and robust advances to May’s perception technology including measurable improvements to object detection, classification, tracking, and prediction.
• Ensure May’s core perception technologies operate efficiently and effectively in commercial deployments.
• Maintain an understanding of related research fields including machine learning, end-to-end learned systems, tracking systems, multi-sensor fusion, and behavior prediction.
• Lead design and specification of next-generation sensor suites to maximize May’s perception system performance.
• Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) to track autonomy performance.
• Identify key gaps and challenges in May’s autonomy perception technology.
• Construct and execute a roadmap to solve key challenges and synchronize with other functions.
• Identify monthly, quarterly, and yearly milestones to iteratively improve performance.
• Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
• Help set perception team hiring targets and manage a diverse team of talented perception engineers and scientists.
• Oversee the escalation of critical issues and opportunities within the autonomy team’s leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• PhD or master's degree in a relevant, highly technical field (e.g. robotics, computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, physics).
• A demonstrated ability to solve complex autonomy problems as a principal investigator, staff or principal engineer, or director (or equivalent role).
• 7+ years of software-focused engineering experience solving challenging robotics problems in mission-critical software and/or robotic systems.
• Experience leading a team of 10+ engineers.
• Previous experience as an individual contributor successfully developing and deploying innovative solutions in the autonomous vehicle or related space.

Requirements

• 5+ years of management experience (desirable).
• Experience developing and/or using MPDM (desirable).
• Previous experience growing a team, crafting hiring plans, designing and conducting interviews, reviewing candidates, and making hiring decisions (desirable).
• Deep understanding of the challenges facing autonomous vehicles as well as the state of the art in autonomy (desirable).
• Previous startup experience (desirable).

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
• Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
• Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
• Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
• Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing.

Salary Range

$220,000 - $300,000 USD