Software Engineer, Agtonomy
Perception/Machine Learning/Computer Vision
$140-200k
+ Equity
Building a sustainable future for local agriculture
Job no longer available
Building a sustainable future for local agriculture
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$140-200k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a sustainable future for local agriculture.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency in C++11 (or newer) development for resource constrained embedded systems
- 5+ years of experience in software development for problems involving state of the art computer vision, machine learning and robotic perception techniques
- Experience handling large datasets efficiently
- Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets
- Experience building algorithms for various hardware sensors (eg, LiDAR, camera, radar, etc.)
- Strong mathematical skills and understanding of probabilistic techniques
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative, small team environment with little supervision
- Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary stakeholders
- Passion for sustainable energy and electric vehicle development
- Experience with real-time sensor fusion, and 3D data representations (pointclouds, meshes, etc.)
- Experience with parallel processing using hardware building blocks (CUDA, DLAs, etc.)
- Experience building and expanding ML model architectures
- Experience with compute constrained pipelines and architectures, optimizing architectures to explore the accuracy vs. compute tradeoff
- Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, related field or equivalent industry experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for enthusiastic software engineers to join our Autonomy team
- You will be responsible for the perception, ML, and CV software of new and existing autonomous vehicle systems through the entire product lifecycle
- You will coordinate with other hardware, software, program management, and business teams to design, implement, and iterate on solutions
- This position will be in our South San Francisco office with our testing grounds in Sonoma County
- Apply first principles, applied theory and machine learning to solve challenging perception problems for autonomous systems (e.g. object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, dense depth, optical flow, tracking, etc.)
- Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
- Characterize and quantify the performance of the vision systems
- Research, prototype, and experiment with various sensors, algorithms and approaches
- Architect, design, and implement software applications, infrastructure, and tools
- Write performant, well-tested software, improve code quality through code and design reviews
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
While trillions of dollars are being spent on developing autonomous passenger vehicles, core industries, such as agriculture, construction, and manufacturing, haven’t been getting the same kind of attention. Agtonomy, a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform, turns tractors and other equipment into autonomous machines using cutting-edge software, enabling cost-saving remote modes of operation.
Agtonomy differs itself from its competition (like John Deere) by primarily meeting the needs of local farmers as opposed to big farms, and its autonomous vehicles will cost around $50,000 (a far cry from John Deere’s usual $500,000-$1 million price tag).
The company is focused on extending its team to accelerate agricultural innovation, helping to close the labor shortage gap while operating safely and sustainably. The company has a small fleet of electric vehicles that have been operating for the last year, and Agtonomy is planning a for commercial launch to happen by the end of 2023.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2023
$22.5m
SERIES A
Sep 2022
$13.5m
SEED
Total funding: $45m
Company values
- Passion for Sustainable Energy & Electric Vehicle Development
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Tim Butcher
(CEO)Founder & President of Trattore Farms. Founder & former CEO of both Lyve Minds, Inc. and Zing Systems, Founder & former Executive Chairman of bothTastingRoom.com and Mirra, Inc. Previous CPO of Scientific Games, SVP and GM (Consumer Solutions Group) at Seagate Technology, VP (Consumer Software) at Dell, SVP (Macintosh Engineering) at Apple, VP (Consumer Products) at Microsoft, and VP (Engineering & Operations) at WebTV Networks.
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