AI-Driven Robotic Perception Lead

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary + equity

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

Generous PTO & holidays

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Lead Perception Engineer to drive production‑grade robotic perception systems and mentor a growing team. You will own architecture, deployment, and sensor fusion, delivering robust CV/ML pipelines for real‑world industrial environments.

The role emphasizes hands‑on development, architecture direction, and collaboration across hardware and software teams to deploy scalable, low‑latency perception platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on robotics, computer vision, autonomous systems, or machine learning.
• 2+ years leading technical teams or serving as a Tech Lead or Engineering Lead.
• Expert programming experience with Python and C++; Rust experience is a plus.
• Strong experience developing production computer vision systems.
• Deep understanding of robotic perception pipelines and sensor calibration.
• Experience building and deploying machine learning models into production environments.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, CUDA, PCL, Open3D, or similar frameworks.
• Experience integrating LiDAR, stereo vision, Time-of-Flight cameras, RGB-D sensors, and other perception technologies.
• Strong understanding of robotics fundamentals including coordinate transforms, localization, calibration, and sensor fusion.
• Experience debugging complex hardware/software interactions in real-world robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of production robotic perception systems.
• Guide engineers through the full software development lifecycle from concept through deployment.
• Design perception pipelines utilizing classical computer vision and deep learning.
• Evaluate and select sensors including LiDAR, stereo cameras, RGB‑D cameras, and Time‑of‑Flight technologies.
• Develop AI and machine learning models for object detection, segmentation, tracking, and classification.
• Improve system accuracy through sensor fusion, calibration, and optimization.
• Design scalable, low-latency perception architectures for real-time robotics applications.
• Perform hands‑on debugging of hardware and software integration issues in laboratory and field environments.
• Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and establish engineering best practices.
• Partner closely with robotics, controls, software, mechanical, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated autonomous solutions.

Skills

Robotics software

Python

C++

Rust

Production CV systems

Sensor calibration

ML model deployment

ROS2

Education

MS/PhD in CS/Robotics/ML

Tools

PyTorch

OpenCV

CUDA

PCL

Open3D

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Lead Perception Engineer to drive production‑grade robotic perception systems and mentor a growing team. You will own architecture, deployment, and sensor fusion, delivering robust CV/ML pipelines for real‑world industrial environments.

The role emphasizes hands‑on development, architecture direction, and collaboration across hardware and software teams to deploy scalable, low‑latency perception platforms.