Perception Engineer

About KovariKovari develops frontier technology to transform physical businesses. We partner with established operators to change how they run, and we build and operate businesses of our own through our subsidiaries.We are a small team of builders, operators, and researchers. We deploy on site, alongside the businesses we serve, and iterate in the field. We have raised over $6M from leading investors.We are based in San Francisco and work in person.The RoleYou will own our perception stack end to end, from raw sensor data to representations used by learned policies and classical control. Your systems run on deployed robots and handle the messy realities of the field: variable lighting, glass and reflective surfaces, temporary obstacles, and repetitive architecture.What You'll DoBuild sensor fusion across cameras, depth, IMU, and proprioceptionOwn calibration, time synchronization, and sensor health monitoringDevelop localization, mapping, and scene understanding for real environmentsBuild detection, segmentation, and 3D representations for manipulation and navigationOptimize perception for real-time inference on edge hardwareDebug field failures and drive fixes back into models and dataWhat You BringStrong background in computer vision and 3D geometryExperience shipping perception on real robots or vehiclesExperience with SLAM, state estimation, or multi-sensor fusionStrong C++ and Python; PyTorch for learned componentsExperience with edge inference (TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or similar)Bonus: publications at CVPR, ICRA, CoRL, RSS, or similarBias toward action: test early, measure, fix what breaksValuesPace of learning trumps everything.Relentless refinement of our craft.Low ego, high ownership.All-in on the mission. We work in person, and this isn't a 9-to-5.