Perception Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Perception Engineer for the Bay Area to join a stealth robotics team building advanced autonomous factories. You will work on perception, sensor integration, and learning components that enable robust operation in challenging environments.

You will contribute to 3D vision, computer vision, and debugging of perception failures, with close collaboration across hardware, software, and simulation disciplines in a small, ownership-driven team.

Qualifications

• Experience in perception for autonomous or robotic systems.
• Strong background in 3D vision and computer vision.
• Ability to handle difficult sensor, lighting, occlusion, and environmental edge cases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve the perception stack for autonomous systems.
• Debug real-world perception failures in deployed systems.
• Collaborate across hardware, software, and ML teams to advance core systems.

Skills

Self-driving perception

3D vision

Computer vision

Sensor interaction

Debugging perception

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Tools

ROS

CUDA

GPU performance

Job description

Perception Engineer - Bay Area

Hiring for a stealth robotics company building highly autonomous 3D factories designed to turn raw materials into finished goods with minimal human labour.

The company is building what it describes as modern “matter compilers” - deeply integrated robotic factories combining hardware, software, perception, robot learning, simulation and low-level compute into a single manufacturing system.

Rather than integrating standard robotics tooling, the team is building major parts of the stack from first principles, including perception, robot learning, simulation, rendering and GPU performance.

It is still a small, deeply technical team of around 11 people, with engineers given significant ownership over core systems and expected to work across disciplines rather than inside a narrow silo.

Hiring across Early, Mid & Late Career for perception engineers with experience in:

• Perception for self-driving or other autonomous systems
• 3D / visual perception & computer vision
• Difficult sensor, lighting, occlusion & environmental edge cases
• Understanding how learning, sensors & hardware interact
• Debugging real-world perception failures in deployed systems

Primarily onsite in the Bay Area, with R&D moving from Menlo Park to San Jose.