Senior Perception Engineer

About the role

The sensing team at Vannevar Labs is building a new hardware product that supports a widespread need for cheap, attritable, and easily coordinated sensing. We’re looking for someone with expertise in RF signal interpretation and how modern machine learning techniques can be applied to characterize unknown RF signals, identify known ones, flag anomalous RF activity, and many other problem of interest to national security.

You will be a member of a cross-functional team made up of software engineers, machine learning specialists, former military officers, and product strategists. You will bring critical domain expertise to the team and have an opportunity to set the standard for how Vannevar Labs conducts sensing R&D efforts.

What you'll do

• Create, implement, and deploy RF sensing solutions for the identification of known signals and the characterization of unknown signals
• Partner with other engineering teams to deliver solutions in a variety of domains including machine learning, hardware, embedded software, and visualization tools.
• Mentor other engineers and grow our team’s domain expertise in RF sensing
• Travel up to 20% of the time to meet with mission owners, better understand requirements, and deliver capabilities

About you

• Proven experience applying machine learning techniques to RF signal processing problems
• Experience building and owning signal processing and machine learning capabilities end-to-end
• Strong communications skills and ability to work with engineers with limited domain expertise
• Proven experience with Python in production systems

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of RF signal concepts including modulation techniques, beamforming, symbol correlation, adaptive signal processing, target tracking, noise analysis, etc
• Possession of active U.S. security clearance (TS/SCI) and ability to maintain clearance

At Vannevar Labs, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we offer

The salary range for this position is $160,000-$210,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training. We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel