Perception Engineer, Staff
9 Mothers - Austin | OnSite
Posted Jun 10, 2026
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- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
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Perception Engineer, Staff Austin | OnSite Location: Onsite - Austin, TX Employment Type: Direct Hire, Full‑Time Job Title: Perception Lead, Staff Eng Company Overview 9 Mothers Defense develops AI-enabled systems to counter unmanned aerial threats. Our first product, EDDA, is an autonomous counter-sUAS point-defense platform designed to detect, track, and neutralize Group 1 drone threats. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Position Summary 9 Mothers is seeking a Perception Lead to own the computer vision and machine learning stack that powers target detection, classification, and tracking in our counter-sUAS systems. The Perception Lead is responsible for the research, development, and deployment of the perception pipeline that enables EDDA to engage aerial threats in real time. This is a senior individual contributor position. Essential Duties - Own the visual perception pipeline end-to-end, including detection, classification, and tracking of sUAS targets in real time. - Design and train machine learning models that meet latency and accuracy requirements for edge deployment on Jetson-class hardware. - Architect and maintain the dataset and simulation pipeline, including data collection, labeling, curation, augmentation, synthetic data generation, and closed-loop retraining based on field performance. - Optimize inference performance on Jetson platforms, including model pruning, quantization, TensorRT integration, and custom kernel development as required. - Establish the model evaluation framework and metrics used to assess perception performance under operational conditions. - Deliver target state information (position, velocity, identity, uncertainty) to the controls subsystem. - Collaborate with the hardware team on camera, optics, and sensor selection. Requirements - 6+
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