{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"18dc55c0ba485998067f1b10","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/18dc55c0ba485998067f1b10","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/18dc55c0ba485998067f1b10","title":"Software Engineer, Perception","description":"We're looking for a Robot Perception Engineer to develop the systems that give our robots a real-time understanding of the parts and workcells in front of them. You'll own the software that turns raw sensor data into the structured observations our controllers depend on, from camera integration and calibration through segmentation, tracking, and the 3D monitoring that lets our robots run alongside people.What You'll DoDevelop and maintain real-time perception pipelines, integrating and calibrating cameras, depth sensors, and LiDAR with our robot platformsBuild segmentation, tracking, and pose estimation that holds up under part-to-part variation, deformable materials, and unreliable depth on thin or reflective featuresDesign the structured observation spaces our learned controllers consume, along with the labeling pipelines that make training them cheapOwn the 3D safety perception stack: occupancy prediction from point clouds, speed modulation, and protective stops that let our robots operate without fencingWork with the controls and policy teams to connect perception outputs to policy inputs at control frequencySupport bring-up and field testing of new camera and sensor configurations on live production linesContribute to fault detection and recovery logic so the system survives an eight-hour shiftWhat We're Looking For4+ years of experience in robotics perception, computer vision, or a closely related fieldStrong software engineering fundamentals in Python and C++Hands-on experience with sensor integration and calibration (cameras, depth sensors, LiDAR, hand-eye)Experience building real-time perception pipelines that ran on real hardwareFluency with both learned and classical CV, and the judgment to know which one a problem calls forExperience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middlewareAbility to debug across the full stack, from driver-level sensor issues to model behavior on live hardwareNice to Have (But Not Required)Production experience with foundation-model perception (SAM2, DINOv2, open-vocabulary detectors), including where they breakPoint cloud and 3D work: voxelization, occupancy networks, LiDAR processingManipulation background: visual servoing, imitation learning, ACT or diffusion policiesSim-to-real experience, including domain randomization and sim/real co-trainingDeploying and optimizing models on edge or onboard compute (quantization, TensorRT)Exposure to safety standards for collaborative robotics (ISO/TS 15066, speed and separation monitoring, power and force limiting)Prior work on early-stage hardware programsWhy This RolePerception is the constraint. 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