SWE, Perception

About Us

Today, most subsea operations depend on large crewed vessels. They are expensive, slow to mobilize, and the reason infrastructure is rarely inspected until something fails.

Amidon Heavy Industries builds autonomous systems for offshore work. Our first systems use uncrewed surface vessels paired with ROVs to inspect pipelines, subsea cables, and offshore assets without ship mobilization. Inspection is the starting point. The long-term goal is a ship-free operating model for offshore work that expands into monitoring, survey, and intervention over time.

The Role

We are hiring a Software Engineer, Perception & Sensors who owns the sensing stack end to end, from sensor selection through delivered data product. Our vessels exist to gather high-fidelity real-world data from surface to seafloor. This role is responsible for choosing the right sensors, understanding how they behave in real maritime environments, and ensuring the data they produce is meaningful, interpretable, and fit for customer use.

Responsibilities

• Own the sensing stack end to end, from sensor evaluation and selection through perception outputs and delivered data products

• Evaluate, select, and validate sonar, camera, video, radar, and navigation sensors based on real-world performance rather than datasheets

• Characterize sensor behavior, noise, bias, resolution limits, latency, and failure modes in operational maritime conditions

• Design and implement calibration, synchronization, and validation workflows to ensure data is accurate, repeatable, and comparable over time

• Develop perception and sensor fusion approaches that transform raw sensor signals into usable representations of the environment

• Define and enforce clear standards for acceptable data quality across sensing modalities

• Build tooling to visualize, replay, inspect, and audit raw and processed sensor data

• Diagnose sensing and perception failures during field operations and drive fixes at the sensor, software, or system level

• Partner with autonomy, systems, and downstream users to ensure perception outputs translate into a usable, trustworthy data product

Qualifications

• Experience owning sensing or perception systems where the output data itself was the product

• Strong C++ and Python skills in a Linux environment

• Hands-on experience working with real sensors, including sonar, vision systems, radar, GNSS, and IMU

• Deep understanding of sensor physics, noise characteristics, calibration challenges, and real-world failure modes

• Experience turning raw sensor data into usable representations for downstream systems or customers

• Comfort making judgment calls about data trustworthiness under imperfect, noisy, or ambiguous conditions

Bonus Points

• Experience with sonar and acoustic sensing in subsea or maritime environments

• Background in field robotics, survey systems, inspection platforms, or remote sensing

• Experience delivering sensor-derived data products used for operational or commercial decision-making

• Familiarity with edge compute constraints and high-bandwidth sensing systems

• Experience taking sensing and perception systems from prototype to commercial deployment