System Engineer - AD/ADAS Perception Expert -Kognic

A safe and highly performing autonomous solution requires reliable data for the perception system. Kognic helps to enable autonomous vehicles by providing a comprehensive solution to produce data for development and validation of its perception system. Our customers trust Kognic to guide them, and we are looking to expand our team to accelerate that exciting journey!

The role

Our Advisory Services department guides our customers to build safer and higher performing products. As an AD/ADAS Perception Expert, you become part of a team who understands the automotive demands specialized in AD/ADAS domain, machine learning and system safety around it and who can connect these aspects to build and validate perception systems for a highly performing autonomous driving system. The team advises our clients on how the objective of building safe autonomous vehicles transfer to perception system KPI requirements as well as annotation context, content and quality. At what level of detail does the ground-truth data need to be labeled to provide dependable system KPIs and proofs of safety? What requirements do not benefit safety or performance of the system and can be dropped? These are examples of topics that our team handles.

The team of experts dare to tell the inconvenient truth and challenge our clients’ ideas. Our goal is not only their convenience and happiness, but their success. That means you must understand what matters to them and guide them in the right direction and you also need to be credible in your interactions and structured in your work.

Besides, the domain expertise carried by the team specially in the role of Perception Expert will be made available throughout the company for education purposes and also for providing insightful product inputs.

Who you are

You have the right mindset and passion - that is what we value the most. We believe you have the following personality traits and soft skills:

- Genuine curiosity and faster learner

- An initiative-taking and solution-oriented mindset

- The courage to coach your customers

- A structured way of working, preferably with project leadership experience

- Excellent communication skills

- A good team player

- Enjoy working in the fast growing company

You should also have most of these hard skills:

- At least four years in a relevant technical field of study (software/electrical/electronic engineering, automotive engineering, computer science,data science, machine learning)

- At least three years of experience working with AD/ADAS sensors or/and sensor data(camera, radar, lidar)

- At least three years of experience working with computer vision/machine learning for AD/ADAS perception systems

- Experience in client-facing roles

- Experience using python and working in databases (SQL) or similar languages

- Experience working with AD/ADAS function/system development or validation will be a plus

- Experience with functional safety (ISO26262)/ SOTIF will be a plus

What’s in it for you?

Other than working with our high performing team in a fun and creative environment we also have a lot of other great benefits!

- Strong values and value-driven company

- Workplace flexibility and Work-life balance

- Exciting career opportunities in a dynamic and fast scaling startup!

- Parental pay, salary exchange, maximum health benefit, order your own workstation, place your own pension - to name a few

- A great expert team where you can learn from each other and the supportive team culture

Location

We are operating in a global market and are looking for talents around the world. The majority of the team is located Gothenburg, Sweden (HQ)

Application

We recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible. We select and perform interviews continuously. If you have any questions regarding the position, please reach out to hiring manager Polly Jing Li, contact points listed below.

About Kognic

Kognic was founded in 2018 by Oscar Petersson and Daniel Langkilde, two engineering physicists working in the field of Deep Learning. Our mission is to make safe perception for autonomous mobility possible. We now support world-leading companies in the field of Autonomous Driving, Advanced Driving Assistance Systems and Active Safety development worldwide. Our office is located at Lindholmen, just by the beautiful waterfront and Lindholmen Science Park.