Hands-on experience architecting and deploying DNN-based perception pipelines on embedded or real-time platforms, including optimization for latency, memory, and compute constraints, and experience with modern architectures such as CNNs and transformers, plus familiarity with techniques like large-scale pretraining, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA), or vision-language models (VLMs). Lead data strategy for perception: specify data and labeling requirements, prioritize data collection and annotation, and collaborate closely with data and ground-truth teams to maximize impact, including model-assisted workflows (e.g., active learning, auto-labeling, VLMs) and advanced model-in-the-loop tooling.