Embodied AI Vision Engineer — Perception Systems Lead

Stord Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stord Inc. is seeking an experienced Computer Vision Engineer to design, prototype, and productionize perception systems that transform real-world environments into high-quality AI training data.

The role focuses on building data pipelines and perception stacks for Embodied AI in large-scale warehousing and fulfillment contexts, collaborating with a small, highly technical team and reporting to senior technical leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production computer vision or perception systems (or an MS/PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field with 6+ years of hands-on industry experience).
• Experience building perception systems that operate on real-world, imperfect data — beyond academic benchmarks.
• Demonstrated experience developing or scaling egocentric vision, robotics perception, autonomous systems, or AI data platforms.
• Deep expertise in computer vision fundamentals and modern tooling, including: CNNs and vision transformers.
• Object detection, segmentation, and tracking.
• Depth estimation and 3D vision.
• 2D/3D pose estimation.
• Camera calibration and geometric computer vision.
• Experience owning complex perception problems end-to-end — from data collection and model development through evaluation, optimization, and deployment.
• Strong understanding of large-scale video and multimodal datasets, including data quality measurement and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience taking ambiguous, 0→1 technical challenges and turning them into scalable systems with limited resources.
• Ability to influence technical direction, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.
• Expert-level Python skills and strong software engineering fundamentals; C++ experience where performance requirements demand it.

Skills

Computer vision

Robotics perception

Python

C++

Deep learning

Data pipelines

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Vision / ML / Robotics

Tools

CNNs

Vision transformers

3D vision

Job description

Stord Inc. is seeking an experienced Computer Vision Engineer to design, prototype, and productionize perception systems that transform real-world environments into high-quality AI training data.

The role focuses on building data pipelines and perception stacks for Embodied AI in large-scale warehousing and fulfillment contexts, collaborating with a small, highly technical team and reporting to senior technical leadership.