Robotics Perception Engineer — Safety-Critical

Lever, Inc.; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Tutor is seeking engineers to design and build perception and monitoring systems for safety-critical robot operations. You will own the code path from sensor readings to safe stopping, and you will test rigorously for weaknesses across the system.

You will work with multiple product teams to ensure safety is embedded in deployment, and you will help shape safety standards and customer-facing evidence as the fleet grows.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping perception or monitoring software on robots or vehicles.
• Owned code where a bug could injure someone and influenced design, testing, and review.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and C++ or similar, with real-time constraints.
• Knowledge of stopping distances, latency budgets, and how a perception decision becomes a motion command.
• Proactive in fixing weaknesses and building fixes when discovered.

Responsibilities

• Build perception and monitoring systems for safety in production robots.
• Own the safety-critical software path from sensor input to a stopped robot, including tests and failure modes.
• Design and review safety-relevant systems and code that decides when a robot may move.
• Test systems with replayed field data, scenarios, and hardware faults to find weaknesses.
• Collaborate across product teams to integrate safety-focused solutions.
• Help shape Tutor's safety strategy and the evidential safety posture delivered to customers.

Skills

Perception software

Safety-critical code

Python & C++

Controls knowledge

Bug fixing

Job description

Tutor is seeking engineers to design and build perception and monitoring systems for safety-critical robot operations. You will own the code path from sensor readings to safe stopping, and you will test rigorously for weaknesses across the system.

You will work with multiple product teams to ensure safety is embedded in deployment, and you will help shape safety standards and customer-facing evidence as the fleet grows.