Staff Perception Scientist

Arm Holdings

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$209,100–$282,900 / yr
Posted
58 days ago
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About Arm Holdings

Arm Holdings plc is a leading British semiconductor and software design firm, established in 1990 and recognized for developing energy-efficient processor architectures that power nearly all smartphones and a vast range of IoT and computing devices.

Arm Holdings currently has 114 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $208,450–$282,050 across 114 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Perception Scientist

The Staff Perception Scientist will join the team to advance how Physical AI systems understand the world on Arm. You will research and develop perception methods that transform camera, depth, radar, lidar, and audio sensor data into reliable representations for robotic and autonomous decision-making. Your daily responsibilities include developing innovative methods for detection, segmentation, tracking, localization, and multimodal sensor fusion while optimizing models for latency, power, and memory across Arm CPUs and heterogeneous AI accelerators. You will utilize Python, C++, and frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow to build reproducible training pipelines and evaluate models against real-world requirements. This role solves the technical challenge of creating accurate, efficient, and resilient perception for intelligent machines operating in complex physical environments with strict edge computing constraints.

What you'll do

  • Develop innovative methods for detection, segmentation, tracking, localization, scene understanding, and multimodal sensor fusion.
  • Formulate research questions and design controlled experiments to translate ideas into robust production algorithms.
  • Advance model architectures that remain accurate under motion, occlusion, domain shift, and sensor degradation.
  • Define datasets, labeling strategies, metrics, benchmarks, and evaluation protocols for real-world product requirements.
  • Build reproducible training pipelines and investigate failure modes using quantitative evidence.
  • Optimize models for latency, power, memory, and accuracy across Arm CPUs and heterogeneous AI accelerators.
  • Integrate perception pipelines with sensor I/O, runtimes, robotics middleware, and downstream consumers.
  • Create reference implementations and diagnostics to make perception behavior observable and testable on-device.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in applied perception, computer vision, machine learning, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of experience moving perception research into real-time or production systems.
  • Proficiency in Python and C++ with PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or similar frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of deep learning for multimodal perception, probability, optimization, 3D geometry, and sensor fusion.
  • Knowledge of efficient inference, numerical precision, model compression, and edge deployment constraints.
  • Ability to design rigorous experiments and communicate results to research, engineering, and product audiences.
  • PhD or equivalent experience in computer vision, machine learning, robotics, computer science, or a related field (preferred).
  • Experience with 3D perception, SLAM, multimodal models, or heterogeneous accelerators (preferred).

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