Perception Engineer

Perception Engineer

New York, NY (on-site) | Up to $250k base + equity

I'm working with a well funded AI and robotics startup in NYC. Their robots run real world experiments around the clock, and AI decides what to try next. Small team, serious backing, and work that leaves the simulator every day.

They need a Perception Engineer to own how the robots see: spotting objects, checking their state and picking them up accurately.

What you'll do

• Design and deploy 2D and 3D vision systems for manipulation and inspection
• Build detection, segmentation and pose estimation pipelines
• Own camera calibration and accuracy across the system
• Feed vision into motion planning and grasping with the robotics team

What they're looking for

• 5+ years deploying vision on real robots or automation
• Hands on with 2D/3D cameras, lenses and lighting
• Production Python and C++
• ROS 2 or equivalent
• Sim2Real experience

Nice to have

• VLA or multimodal models running on robots
• Automation or scientific instrumentation background

Package: Up to $250k base, equity, fully covered healthcare, unlimited PTO. Visa transfers supported.