AI Engineer - Perception

About RecogniRecogni’s mission is to design a vision-oriented artificial intelligence system from the ground up. The system will deliver unprecedented inference performance through novel edge processing, allowing vehicles to see farther and make driving decisions faster than humans while consuming minimal amounts of energy.Backed by GreatPoint Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, BMW i Ventures and other leading VC partners, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional operations in Munich, Germany.About the role

As a perception engineer at Recogni you will be building the AI-vision part of our actual product. From multi-modal 3D object detection, over panoptic segmentation all the way to kalman filter tracking - you will be part of the team that is building an end-to-end state-of-the-art autonomous drive perception stack, inspired but not limited by and out-performing today’s approaches to help our customers get to full autonomy within a commercially and technologically viable envelope.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, develop and release AI functionalities around compression, quantization, multi-loss, knowledge distillation, massively parallel training and every other technique that is part of bringing our synergistic system-level approach to market
• Release your work aligned with our in-house libraries as well as in compliance with automotive safety standards
• Coordinate with other departments (hardware, embedded software, sensors, product)
• Pro-actively maintain up-to-date knowledge of our field through papers, blogs, conferences, meetups

Qualifications

• Master or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science or AI
• 3+ years of successful experience in building and releasing AI-centric automotive vision functionality
• Ability to quickly extract relevant information from publications in our field
• Experience in working in compliance to functional safety standards such as ISO 26262/ASIL
• Very familiar with/fluent in the latest versions of the following tech stack (ordered by relevance):
• • TensorFlow, Python, Git(Hub/Lab)
  • GCP, Google TPU, Nvidia (TensorRT)
  • CUDA, C++
• Solid knowledge in the fields of:
  • 2D/3D single- and two-stage Object Detection
  • Semantic, Instance, Panoptic Segmentation (incl. Lane Markings, Free Space etc.)
  • Dense Depth and Optical Flow Estimation (SLAM)
  • Early, Mid and Late Fusion concepts in multi-modal sensor frontends (incl. LiDAR, Radar, IR)
  • Ensembles, knowledge distillation, regularization, multi-task learning, compression, quantization …
  • System-level AV integration, ROS
  • Traditional computer vision (particularly around low-level pre-processing of image sensor data)

Why you might want to join the Recogni team

• Ground floor opportunity with the team; be part of shaping one of the most exciting new companies.
• Learning and development opportunities from a highly diverse and talented peer group, including experts in a wide range of fields, from Artificial Intelligence & Computer Vision to Systems & Device Engineering to Support & Operations
• Beautiful modern work space.
• Perks including meals, snacks, drinks, gym, conference attendances and us!
• Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Recogni's culture was built on the following values that are equally important to us as business:

• Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed.
• Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone.
• Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals.
• Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do.
• Own it and get it done. Results matter!
• Make Each Person Better together than they would be as an individual.
• Embrace each others’ differences.
• Embrace that there will be differences.

Recogni is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances