Principal Perception Hardware Engineer
About us
AIM builds autonomy for the real world: robots that move mountains. Our systems bring together software, hardware, and robotics to turn heavy equipment into intelligent machines that reshape how earthmoving is done.
We're looking for a Principal Perception Hardware Engineer to own the sensor system architecture for our autonomy platform, from choosing sensing modalities and sensors through placement, requirements, validation, and production readiness. You will set the technical direction across hardware, perception, and vehicle teams, make the final calls on sensor-suite trade-offs that shape our multi-year roadmap, and help build our sensor systems team and capability from the ground up. We're hiring at Staff or Principal level, matched to experience and scope.
About you
You are comfortable with ambiguity. Off-road heavy equipment has no established sensing playbook, and you're excited to write one: defining the standards, not just following them.
You own outcomes in the field. You go to job sites, diagnose problems on the machine, and stay accountable for results through deployment rather than handing off a design.
You make pragmatic decisions. You balance the ideal architecture against cost, ruggedness, retrofit constraints, and speed
