Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Pinnacle Government Solutions is a minority-owned small business that provides Software, AI/ML, and Cloud Engineering Solutions for our Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Federal Civilian agencies. We bring SME-level expertise and over five decades of combined industry knowledge and Talent Acquisition experience. We believe in getting it right for our customers and our country.

We are seeking an AI / Perception Lead Engineer to own and deliver the perception layer of our autonomy stack. This is a high-impact role focused on building real-time computer vision and sensor fusion systems that operate reliably on constrained edge hardware in dynamic environments. This is not a research-only role. You will be responsible for taking perception systems from concept → prototype → field deployment, working across software, hardware, and real-world testing.

Responsibilities:

* Develop and deploy real-time object detection, classification, and tracking systems

* Optimize models for edge deployment (Hailo, Jetson, ARM, etc.)

* Build multi-sensor perception pipelines (camera, lidar, etc.)

* Improve robustness under real-world conditions (motion blur, occlusion, lighting)

* Integrate perception outputs into downstream autonomy systems

Required Skills and Experience:

* Strong experience with modern CV models (YOLO, transformers, tracking systems)

* Experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying models

* Experience with edge inference optimization (TensorRT, ONNX, etc.)

* Strong Python + C++ (or Rust) skills

* Experience working with real-time video pipelines

Preferred Skills and Experience:

* Experience with Hailo or similar accelerators

* Experience with multi-object tracking (ByteTrack, DeepSORT)

* Experience with Roboflow or similar dataset pipelines

* Experience deploying models on embedded systems