Perception Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Perception Engineer for a Bay Area stealth robotics company focused on autonomous, highly capable 3D factories. You will work across perception, robot learning, simulation and GPU compute with a small, ownership-driven team.

Early to late career candidates with experience in self-driving perception, 3D vision and sensor integration are encouraged to apply. Primarily onsite in the Bay Area, with ongoing R&D moving between Menlo Park and San Jose, you will tackle

Qualifications

• Experience in perception for autonomous systems.
• Strong knowledge of 3D visual perception and computer vision.
• Ability to debug real-world perception failures in deployed systems.
• Understanding of sensor, lighting, occlusion, and environmental edge cases.
• Experience bridging hardware, software, and learning components.

Responsibilities

• Develop perception modules for autonomous systems and robotics.
• Collaborate across hardware, software, and ML teams.
• Improve robustness of perception under real-world conditions.

Skills

Self-driving perception

3D visual perception

Computer vision

Sensor integration

Debugging perception failures

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Job description

Perception Engineer - Bay Area

Hiring for astealth robotics companybuilding 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 acrossEarly, Mid & Late Careerforperception engineerswith 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.