Perception Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is recruiting perception engineers for a stealth robotics company building highly autonomous 3D factories that turn raw materials into finished goods with minimal human labour. The work centers on perception for self-driving or other autonomous systems, addressing difficult sensor, lighting, occlusion and environmental edge cases.

The small, highly technical team (around 11 engineers) values ownership across core systems and expects collaboration across disciplines rather than

Qualifications

• Perception for self-driving or other autonomous systems.
• Difficult sensor, lighting, occlusion & environmental edge cases.
• Understanding how learning, sensors & hardware interact.

Skills

Perception engineering

Autonomous systems

Sensor data understanding

Job description

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
• Difficult sensor, lighting, occlusion & environmental edge cases
• Understanding how learning, sensors & hardware interact

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