Senior Perception Software Engineer

Sauron is redefining home security through a fusion of cutting-edge technology and elite human oversight. Founded in 2024 by Kevin Hartz, Jack Abraham, and Vasu Raman, the company offers an autonomous security platform that combines AI-driven 3D perception, LiDAR, facial recognition, and thermal imaging to deliver real-time, 360° situational awareness . Sauron's IRIS Command Center, staffed 24 / 7 by professionals from law enforcement and military backgrounds, ensures immediate and precise threat response . With features like predictive threat modeling and seamless user interfaces, Sauron not only detects but actively deters potential intrusions, setting a new standard in residential security .

This role involves model design, development, and evaluation for perception tasks that include both classic computer vision approaches and more modern ML approaches. Our hardware will operate around the home and must be able to complete its mission reliably in the face of all environmental conditions. We aim to build a system that handles a wide variety of scenarios and do so without error. This role will be highly collaborative with our hardware team to develop requirements needed for sensing, tracking, and other perception tasks, as well as iteration for various generations of hardware.

We Value

• Collaboration, pair programming, and teamwork.
• Making small improvements and shipping code to production continuously.
• Taking ownership across the stack.
• Test-driven development, and refactoring regularly to keep our codebases healthy.

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