{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"cae1572131fa932f37e11ab7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cae1572131fa932f37e11ab7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cae1572131fa932f37e11ab7","title":"Sr. Perception Engineer","description":"Our Company\nMISO develops technology that elevates human lives in the commercial kitchen.\nWe’re engineering production-ready robotic systems that tightly integrate perception, real-time decision making, and electromechanical controls to automate the most dangerous, least desirable tasks in food preparation. That means building software that understands the physical world as it actually behaves, and hardware that can execute precisely in the face of chaos. Success is measured in uptime, throughput, and trust from our customers, not demos.\nOur flagship platform, Flippy, is already operating in high-volume restaurant kitchens across seven states. Zippy, our Kitchen Intelligence software centralizes all operational data in our broader ecosystem, expanding the role of AI-enabled autonomy in real-world operations. Backed by industry leaders, including Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), Miso combines the stability of a proven commercial product with the technical depth and ambition of a company passionately innovating to solve foundational problems in robotics and restaurant operations.\nIf you’re excited by hard constraints, real customers, and the challenge of making software and machines perform reliably where failure isn’t an option, you’ll find meaningful problems to work on here.\n\nThe Role\n\nAs a Sr. Perception Engineer, you will design, develop, and improve perception of the environment and objects for Miso Robotics Flippy automated kitchen. This includes the fusion of data from cameras, infrared, arm position, state machine context, door sensors, and other sensors. You have an aggressive start-up mindset because we are bringing years of R&D to high-quality releases at scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect SW for reliability, scalability, and efficiency flow of data through the system.\nDevelop robust monitoring solutions to continuously track and ensure system health\nEvolve and simplify state machines + scheduler that dictate robot behaviors and workflows\nOwn the vision part of installation, updates, robustness, calibration, and performance\nDrive improved quality with every sprint and new release. Facilitate automated tests.\nEvaluate new 3rd-party sensors and algorithms\nProactively align with other teams/components and the physical system\nQualifications\nBS Computer Vision (or similar)\n5+ years of relevant industry experience; many releases of production quality deployments\nProgramming in Python and C++\nROS (Robot Operating System)\nProficiency with Linux/Docker environments, and version control systems (e.g., Git)\nSensor fusion (camera + lidar + IMU)\nCoordinate frames & transforms (TF)\nVision inspection pipelines\nImage processing (filtering, edge detection, morphology)\nObject detection & classification, Object tracking (Kalman, SORT, DeepSORT)\nPose estimation (PnP, ICP, visual odometry)\nCamera calibration (intrinsic/extrinsic)\nMachine Learning, CNN, PyTorch, Data set creation, labeling, & augmentation, VertexAI and/or AWS Sagemaker\nExcellent written and verbal interpersonal skills\nAttention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to learn / adapt quickly\nCollaborative team player with a drive to take initiative and ownership\nPreferred\nMS or PhD in Computer Science or related field\nExperience accelerating CV applications on GPU using CUDA or NVIDIA Deepstream SDK\nExperience building MLOps pipelines for continuous training, testing, and deployment of Vision Models\nOpenCV, HALCON, Cognex VisionPro\nExperience training and integrating Vision Language Action Models on robotic applications\n\nCompensation\n$120,000-$165,000/yr + Benefits\nThe stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base salary range for candidates residing in the Los Angeles Metro area and excludes additional earnings such as bonus and benefits. If your salary requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply.\nAt Miso Robotics, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where every team member is valued and respected. We believe that diversity in our team drives innovation and creativity, which is why we strive to create a welcoming environment for everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.\n\nqTOmJDBiuy","company":"Miso Robotics","rawCompany":"miso robotics","city":"Pasadena","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-15T14:44:01.609Z","occupations":[{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"},{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Sr. Perception Engineer","description":"Our Company\nMISO develops technology that elevates human lives in the commercial kitchen.\nWe’re engineering production-ready robotic systems that tightly integrate perception, real-time decision making, and electromechanical controls to automate the most dangerous, least desirable tasks in food preparation. That means building software that understands the physical world as it actually behaves, and hardware that can execute precisely in the face of chaos. Success is measured in uptime, throughput, and trust from our customers, not demos.\nOur flagship platform, Flippy, is already operating in high-volume restaurant kitchens across seven states. Zippy, our Kitchen Intelligence software centralizes all operational data in our broader ecosystem, expanding the role of AI-enabled autonomy in real-world operations. Backed by industry leaders, including Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), Miso combines the stability of a proven commercial product with the technical depth and ambition of a company passionately innovating to solve foundational problems in robotics and restaurant operations.\nIf you’re excited by hard constraints, real customers, and the challenge of making software and machines perform reliably where failure isn’t an option, you’ll find meaningful problems to work on here.\n\nThe Role\n\nAs a Sr. Perception Engineer, you will design, develop, and improve perception of the environment and objects for Miso Robotics Flippy automated kitchen. This includes the fusion of data from cameras, infrared, arm position, state machine context, door sensors, and other sensors. You have an aggressive start-up mindset because we are bringing years of R&D to high-quality releases at scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect SW for reliability, scalability, and efficiency flow of data through the system.\nDevelop robust monitoring solutions to continuously track and ensure system health\nEvolve and simplify state machines + scheduler that dictate robot behaviors and workflows\nOwn the vision part of installation, updates, robustness, calibration, and performance\nDrive improved quality with every sprint and new release. Facilitate automated tests.\nEvaluate new 3rd-party sensors and algorithms\nProactively align with other teams/components and the physical system\nQualifications\nBS Computer Vision (or similar)\n5+ years of relevant industry experience; many releases of production quality deployments\nProgramming in Python and C++\nROS (Robot Operating System)\nProficiency with Linux/Docker environments, and version control systems (e.g., Git)\nSensor fusion (camera + lidar + IMU)\nCoordinate frames & transforms (TF)\nVision inspection pipelines\nImage processing (filtering, edge detection, morphology)\nObject detection & classification, Object tracking (Kalman, SORT, DeepSORT)\nPose estimation (PnP, ICP, visual odometry)\nCamera calibration (intrinsic/extrinsic)\nMachine Learning, CNN, PyTorch, Data set creation, labeling, & augmentation, VertexAI and/or AWS Sagemaker\nExcellent written and verbal interpersonal skills\nAttention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to learn / adapt quickly\nCollaborative team player with a drive to take initiative and ownership\nPreferred\nMS or PhD in Computer Science or related field\nExperience accelerating CV applications on GPU using CUDA or NVIDIA Deepstream SDK\nExperience building MLOps pipelines for continuous training, testing, and deployment of Vision Models\nOpenCV, HALCON, Cognex VisionPro\nExperience training and integrating Vision Language Action Models on robotic applications\n\nCompensation\n$120,000-$165,000/yr + Benefits\nThe stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base salary range for candidates residing in the Los Angeles Metro area and excludes additional earnings such as bonus and benefits. If your salary requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply.\nAt Miso Robotics, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where every team member is valued and respected. 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