Senior Offensive Security Engineer-Web&AI
FocusKPI is seeking a Senior Offensive Security Engineer-Web&AI to join one of our clients, a high-tech SaaS company.
Work Location: Mountain View, CA (Onsite role, 4 days/week onsite)
Duration: 12-month contract with potential to convert depending on the candidate's performance
Pay Range: $50+/hr
**No C2C resumes are considered**
Position Responsibilities:
- Design and evaluate the suitability of robotic hardware, sensors, and software for applications in semi-structured and unstructured environments targeting high impact business areas
- Integrate sensors, actuators and other component into proof-of-concept/prototype robotic systems and analyze and optimize robotic system performance and accuracy
- Design, develop, integrate and test algorithms for robot perception, control, learning, navigation, and manipulation
- Develop and deploy data collection and model management mechanisms for in-the wild data aggregation
- Work within cross-functional, cross-divisional teams and assist in the design, analysis and performance evaluation from concept to completion
- Document and present results evaluating algorithms and models on targeted compute platforms
- Conduct pilot studies and formal experiments to benchmark performance against state-of-the-art approaches using clear and well-reasoned metrics
Required Skills:
- PhD or Master’s degree in EECS/Robotics or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- 3+ years’ industry experience in state-of-the-art robotics R&D, such as foundation models, vision-language-action (VLA) models, open-world 3D perception, trajectory prediction, model predictive control, and multimodal (visual, tactile, audio, semantic) information fusion
- Demonstrated experience in sensing, kinematics, dynamics, and control systems integrated on real robotic systems
- Solid understanding of computer vision techniques (e.g., object detection, segmentation, tracking) and multi-view image processing
- Knowledgeable of tools and processes to monitor ML model performance and data quality, including model tuning experience
- Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, ROS, and CUDA
- Demonstrated experience in software engineering best practices to track, communicate, and document project progress
- Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals, including locomotion, manipulation, sensor inputs, pose tracking, 3D mapping, SLAM, ROS, and policy architectures particularly for semi-structured and unstructured environments
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts developed in the course of the work
**No C2C resumes are considered**
Thank you!
FocusKPI Hiring Team
Founded in 2010, FocusKPI, Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with an East Coast office in Boston, Massachusetts.
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