Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Object Perception

We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join our Skills team, focusing on object perception for real-world robot manipulation. In this role, you will be close to the real robot, owning perception performance end-to-end on hardware: from sensor inputs, to perception algorithms and models, to how those outputs are consumed by downstream planners to enable robust manipulation in real customer environments. You will work closely with other AI/ML engineers, exploring off-the-shelf models, classical computer vision, geometric reasoning, and learned approaches to build perception systems that are reliable, debuggable, and performant on real robots. In some cases, that will involve training or fine-tuning models; in others, it will mean integrating proven techniques or existing libraries to meet the task requirements efficiently.

About the Work

• Own object perception performance on the robot, from sensors through runtime behavior integration
• Design, implement, and deploy perception pipelines for manipulation, including object pose estimation, depth reasoning, and scene understanding
• Work hands-on with real robots to debug, tune, and harden perception systems under real-world variability
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to evaluate, integrate, train, and fine-tune perception models
• Explore and integrate off-the-shelf perception solutions and libraries where they meet performance and reliability needs
• Combine learned models with classical CV, geometry, and task structure to meet system-level requirements
• Define interfaces and contracts between perception, behaviors, and task planning to ensure reliable execution
• Build tools and workflows to evaluate perception performance across datasets, simulation, and hardware

• BS or MS in Robotics or related field
• 5+ years of professional experience building object perception systems for real robotic platforms
• Experience working across learned models and classical perception approaches
• Experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating perception models
• Strong experience writing production-quality C++ and Python code
• Hands-on experience with monocular vision, stereo vision, RGB-D sensing, or depth reconstruction
• Experience with perception libraries (OpenCV, Open3D, PCL, ROS perception, NumPy, scikit-image)
• You love solving hard perception problems, but your real passion is seeing those solutions work on a robot in the real world and having an impact
• You're excited to work on hardware
• You enjoy debugging, testing, and iterating quickly in simulation and on the real robot

You Might Also Have

• Solid understanding of spatial reasoning
• Demonstrated ability to apply object perception model outputs (detection, segmentation, pose estimation) in manipulation pipelines
• Experience with structured 3D estimation (plane fitting, normal estimation, voxel maps, etc)

This is a hybrid role based out of one of our Salem, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, or Fremont, CA offices.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:

• 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
• Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off:

• Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
• Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.

• On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
• Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
• Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs., National average IT Jobs average Oregon average

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