Training Autonomous Systems to Understand Human Behavior: Our Portfolio Company Perceptive Automata is Hiring
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Perceptive Automata is training autonomous systems to understand and anticipate human behavior, thereby enabling autonomous vehicles to intuitively navigate smoothly and more efficiently around people.
Perceptive Automata’s technology uses an artificial intelligence (AI) inference model called State of Mind AI (SOMAI) that integrates into autonomous driving stacks. The core software module is wrapped in a C++ API that enables seamless integration. SOMAI accurately interprets situations with people, improving pedestrian crossing predictions, reducing pedestrian path prediction error, and ultimately achieving human-like social driving actions.
Perceptive Automata joined the Toyota Ventures portfolio in 2018. Named one of the 100 Best Places To Work and 50 Best Small Companies To Work For in Boston by Built In, Perceptive Automata is quickly expanding. If you’re interested in advancing autonomous systems’ understanding of human behavior, check out these two roles available on the Toyota Ventures jobs board: Data Platform Engineer and Senior Web Developer.
Data Platform Engineer (Boston, MA)
In this role, you will play a key part in helping the Perceptive Automata data platform team scale up critical infrastructure. As the storage, processing, and organization of data provides a crucial foundation for multiple teams, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact. Responsibilities include designing and implementing improvements to the platform and internal reporting processes to support expansion, as well as collaborating with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure that data processing and reporting is accurate.
The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience, as well as two years of commercial software development using Python. You should also have strong software design skills and experience with cloud platforms and relational databases such as PostgreSQL. Excellent analytical and communication skills are a must. Familiarity in areas such as data visualization, logging libraries and toolsets, workflow orchestration, containerization, and noSQL databases is a plus.
Senior Web Developer (Boston, MA)
The senior web developer will play a key role on the Perceptive Automata App Team. Your responsibilities will be to help develop, extend, and maintain Perceptive Automata’s data annotation and experiment framework. You will design, implement, test, and document software used by annotators to label data and by team members running research experiments. You will coordinate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the framework meets research requirements.
A bachelor’s degree and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is needed for this role. The ideal candidate also has at least five years of experience in full-stack development, and knows how to architect and design full-stack applications. You should also have strong Python programming skills and experience with JavaScript and modern front-end frameworks, as well as PostgreSQL or other relational databases. Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, web application performance profiling tools, or automated testing tools is a plus.
Learn more about a career at Perceptive Automata and explore other job opportunities on the Toyota Ventures jobs board. A number of our portfolio companies are also recruiting right now, so be sure to sign up for the Toyota AI Ventures Talent Network.
