Robotics Vision Engineer — Perception for Manipulation

Tutor Intelligence, Inc.; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Managed 401(k)

In-office meals

Job summary

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. in Watertown, MA seeks a Perception Engineer to own a substantial computer-vision stack—from problem definition and data collection to evaluation, integration, and ongoing improvement on physical robots.

You will collaborate with research, software, mechanical, and electrical engineers to advance perception and its integration into manipulation systems. The role emphasizes practical geometry, learned models, and reproducible evaluations; it offers a competitive package

Qualifications

• Independent ownership of a substantial computer-vision system from problem to tested integration.
• Strong Python engineering with maintainable code, tests, and reproducible experiments.
• Practical command of camera models, calibration, coordinate frames, and 3D geometry.
• Experience with geometric vision or learned visual models, with judgment to choose between approaches.
• Ability to build representative evaluations, isolate failure modes, and distinguish model improvements from data or measurement artifacts.
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs and resolve interfaces with engineers in other disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical approach and success criteria for ambiguous perception problems in robot manipulation.
• Build and integrate capabilities such as detection, segmentation, tracking, pose estimation, and 3D scene understanding.
• Own camera calibration, coordinate transforms, synchronization assumptions, and checks that expose degraded sensor quality.
• Create reproducible datasets and evaluations covering changes in objects, lighting, viewpoint, and occlusion; prevent evaluation leakage.
• Select and adapt geometric methods and learned models based on accuracy, latency, robustness, and operational constraints.
• Deploy and maintain perception in the robot stack; diagnose failures using recorded data and physical experiments.
• Improve shared evaluation tools and documentation, contribute to design reviews, and mentor colleagues in your domain.

Skills

Python engineering

Camera models & calibration

3D geometry

Geometric vision

Communication of tradeoffs

Tools

OpenCV

Open3D

PCL

C++

GPU optimization

Job description

Tutor Intelligence, Inc. in Watertown, MA seeks a Perception Engineer to own a substantial computer-vision stack—from problem definition and data collection to evaluation, integration, and ongoing improvement on physical robots.

You will collaborate with research, software, mechanical, and electrical engineers to advance perception and its integration into manipulation systems. The role emphasizes practical geometry, learned models, and reproducible evaluations; it offers a competitive package