Software Engineer (Perception, Fallback Stack)

Join Applied, a leading company in the autonomous systems industry. As a Software Engineer on the Fallback Stack team, you will focus on building perception capabilities that help autonomous vehicles recognize uncertainty, degradation, and failure. Your work will directly impact vehicle safety and the expansion of operational design domains. You will also have access to a range of benefits, including health insurance, a fitness stipend, a 401(k) match, a learning stipend, and parental leave.

• Design and implement simulation capabilities and workflows to enable cutting-edge real-world perception system development.
• Work closely with our sensor simulation team to ensure we build the best range of multi-fidelity simulation models.
• Design perception and uncertainty signals that gate fallback behaviors, and deploy production systems that directly impact vehicle safety and ODD expansion.
• Proficiency in C++ and/or Python and production-grade software practices
• 5+ years of experience in AV, robotics, or safety-critical perception systems
• Experience using ML for uncertainty estimation, confidence calibration, or OOD detection
• Has hands-on experience with more than one domain relevant software framework or tools, such as middleware, benchmarking suites, data sets and related pipelines, or algorithmic libraries
• Is passionate about turning their domain expertise into tooling that boosts the productivity of teams working on various real-world applications of autonomous systems
• Has worked with production level ML and DL perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles
• Experience with degraded sensors, adverse weather, or real-world edge cases
• MSc or PhD in perception or closely related field
• Familiarity with fallback systems, MRM concepts, or safety cases (ISO/SOTIF)
• Deep hands-on expertise in relevant algorithms or methods, such as non-linear optimization, computational geometry, numerical analysis, distributed systems
• Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles