Autonomous Ag Robotics Perception Engineer

Sabanto Inc.; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Vacation

flexible time

401k

Medical

Dental

Job summary

Sabanto Inc. is seeking a Perception-focused Robotics Engineer to build sensing and perception systems for autonomous agricultural equipment.

You will bring bench sensors to field-ready deployment, handling cameras, LiDAR, radar, GNSS/IMU and data fusion to support navigation, safety and control. You will design robust perception pipelines, calibrate sensors, and optimize models to run in real-time with tight power and thermal constraints, while collaborating with engineering teams to ship

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering or a related field.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with comfort in geometry, linear algebra and probabilistic estimation.
• An entrepreneurial attitude with a keen eye for detail.
• Can code with and without AI help.
• Organized, disciplined, and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Industrious – ideally can drive, or willing to learn to drive, tractors, and anything with four wheels.
• Ag-gnostic – Excited about learning the ag industry, understanding what's important to farmers and helping them be successful with our offerings.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and harden perception pipelines — obstacle detection, classification and tracking — that keep autonomous agricultural equipment operating safely in the field
• Integrate real sensors (cameras, LiDAR, radar, GNSS/IMU) onto tractors and implements, including drivers, intrinsic/extrinsic calibration and time synchronization
• Fuse multi-sensor data into a dependable world model that feeds navigation, safety and control and sequencing systems
• Evaluate, select and integrate third-party sensors and perception vendors, from bench prototype through production deployment
• Deploy and optimize computer vision models on edge compute within real-time latency, thermal and power constraints
• Build data collection, labeling and evaluation pipelines from field logs to measure and improve perception performance across crops, seasons, lighting and weather
• Triage, reproduce and resolve perception issues seen in the field using recorded sensor data
• Occasional travel to observe and refine perception systems at customer sites
• Write tested, hardened and safe code — unit tests, replay tests against real field data, and on-vehicle validation before every change ships

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

Perception

Sensor fusion

Education

Bachelor's in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering or a related field

Tools

ROS/ROS2

OpenCV

PCL/Open3D

NVIDIA Jetson

Job description

Sabanto Inc. is seeking a Perception-focused Robotics Engineer to build sensing and perception systems for autonomous agricultural equipment.

You will bring bench sensors to field-ready deployment, handling cameras, LiDAR, radar, GNSS/IMU and data fusion to support navigation, safety and control. You will design robust perception pipelines, calibrate sensors, and optimize models to run in real-time with tight power and thermal constraints, while collaborating with engineering teams to ship