Senior 3D Perception Engineer — LiDAR & Point Clouds

Kybera; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kybera is seeking a Senior Point Cloud Specialist to lead the development, integration and optimisation of point-cloud perception capabilities. You will work at the intersection of LiDAR, 3D perception, deep learning and real-time autonomous systems to build reliable industrial solutions.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, the role is hands-on and senior, focusing on production-grade C++ and Python and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver robust perception systems for

Qualifications

• Significant experience in point cloud processing, LiDAR SLAM or related field.
• Strong knowledge of DNN-based point cloud models for real-time applications.
• Deep production-grade C++ expertise with Python skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical roadmap for point-cloud-based perception including classical processing and DNN approaches.
• Architect and develop perception pipelines for detection, segmentation and tracking.
• Develop and evaluate modern DNN-based point cloud models (voxel, pillar, BEV, sparse conv, transformers).
• Design and optimise real-time LiDAR perception with latency, compute and memory constraints.
• Develop preprocessing and feature-extraction techniques (filters, clustering, ground removal).
• Improve perception under occlusion, sparse returns, adverse weather and dynamic environments.
• Collaborate with mapping/localisation on registration, alignment and interfaces.
• Prototype and de-risk new approaches turning ideas into robust solutions.

Skills

Point cloud processing

LiDAR SLAM

DNN-based point cloud models

C++

Python

Job description

Kybera is seeking a Senior Point Cloud Specialist to lead the development, integration and optimisation of point-cloud perception capabilities. You will work at the intersection of LiDAR, 3D perception, deep learning and real-time autonomous systems to build reliable industrial solutions.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, the role is hands-on and senior, focusing on production-grade C++ and Python and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver robust perception systems for