Robotics Perception & ML Automation Engineer

Henderson Scott; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Henderson Scott is assisting in recruiting an experienced Robotics Perception Engineer to support perception and autonomous systems development for a global engineering and manufacturing organisation. The role focuses on camera and LiDAR datasets, ground truth generation, data annotation and Python-based automation.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, perception systems or sensor-based computer vision applications, beyond generic data science

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python development and automation
• Practical experience training, fine-tuning and deploying machine learning models
• Experience with computer vision, perception systems or autonomous technologies
• Knowledge of camera and LiDAR sensor datasets, including data collection and processing
• Experience developing data pipelines, annotation workflows and ground truth datasets
• Understanding of data validation, annotation quality assurance and dataset accuracy
• Familiarity with ML model evaluation, experiment tracking, version control and deployment practices
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and cross-functional communication skills

Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based automation for sensor data ingestion, processing, validation and quality assurance.
• Train, fine-tune, evaluate and support the deployment of machine learning models.
• Design and optimise data collection pipelines for camera and LiDAR sensor datasets.
• Develop automated data annotation, ground truth generation and validation workflows.
• Identify dataset quality issues, labelling defects and model performance gaps.
• Implement improvements to annotation accuracy, dataset consistency and overall ML performance.
• Build reporting tools to monitor dataset health, model performance and workflow efficiency.
• Collaborate with AI, data engineering and quality teams to deliver scalable automation solutions.

Skills

Python development

ML model deployment

Computer vision

Perception systems

Sensor datasets (camera, LiDAR)

Data pipelines

Data validation & QA

Experiment tracking & version control

Cross-functional communication

Job description

Henderson Scott is assisting in recruiting an experienced Robotics Perception Engineer to support perception and autonomous systems development for a global engineering and manufacturing organisation. The role focuses on camera and LiDAR datasets, ground truth generation, data annotation and Python-based automation.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, perception systems or sensor-based computer vision applications, beyond generic data science