Computer Vision Engineer

Acceler8; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is partnering with a stealth robotics startup in San Jose, CA, to hire a Perception Engineer who will own perception systems for autonomous robots. This onsite role offers impact on core perception pipelines and direct deployment on hardware.

You will work across perception, learning, and hardware, coding in C++ and Python, addressing edge cases, sensor variability, and real-world constraints with a small, hands-on team that values ownership.

Qualifications

• Engineers who have personally owned production or field-tested perception systems in self-driving or other challenging autonomous environments.
• Strong 3D and visual perception experience with deep implementation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy robust perception systems for autonomous robots.
• Debug perception failures and improve reliability across the pipeline.
• Implement core systems in C++ and Python with room to develop new approaches.
• Collaborate across learning and hardware to ensure real-world perception performance.

Skills

Autonomous systems

C++

Python

Computer vision

Job description

Perception Engineer | Autonomous Robotics | San Jose, CA

I’m partnering with a stealth robotics startup building highly autonomous factories designed to turn raw materials into finished goods with significantly less manual labour.

They’re developing an integrated stack across perception, robot learning, simulation, rendering and GPU systems—and hiring a Perception Engineer to own difficult real-world autonomy problems.

You’ll join a small, hands-on team with the opportunity to shape core systems, build from first principles and see your work deployed on physical hardware.

What you’ll work on:

• Building and deploying robust perception systems for autonomous robots.
• Solving challenging edge cases involving sensor variability, difficult environments and real hardware constraints.
• Debugging perception failures and improving reliability across the full pipeline.
• Working across learning and hardware to make perception perform reliably in the real world.
• Implementing core systems in C++ and Python, with scope to develop new approaches.

Who could be a fit?

Engineers who have personally owned production or field-tested perception systems in self-driving or other challenging autonomous environments.

Particularly interested in people with experience across:

• Autonomous vehicles, including advanced development teams.
• Drones, construction, forestry, maritime autonomy or field robotics.
• 3D and visual perception, with strong implementation depth and experience diagnosing real deployment failures.

Onsite in San Jose, CA

High ownership within a small robotics team

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