Senior Perception Engineer

Auxo Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Auxo Talent is seeking a Senior Perception Engineer for a well-funded Physical AI company in the Bay Area. You will own the core perception stack, enabling machines to understand their surroundings using camera, LiDAR, and radar data.

You will advance sensor fusion, SLAM, and 3D vision, shipping perception software onto real hardware with real customers. You’ll lead critical components in a small senior team and receive meaningful equity as part of compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in perception or computer vision for robotics or autonomous systems.
• Experience shipping perception software that runs on a real machine.
• Depth in at least one area: SLAM, sensor fusion, 3D reconstruction, or deep learning for vision.
• Your work goes onto real hardware, not just into papers.
• Competitive base salary plus meaningful equity.

Responsibilities

• Building the perception stack that lets a machine understand its surroundings.
• Working across sensor fusion, SLAM, 3D vision, object detection, and tracking.
• Taking models from research to reliable, real-time performance on hardware.
• Working with camera, LiDAR, and radar data.

Skills

C++

Python

SLAM

Sensor fusion

3D vision

Job description

Our client is a well-funded Physical AI company in the Bay Area. They build the technology that lets robots see and understand the world around them.

The team is led by engineers who have shipped hardware and software at scale, and they are growing quickly after a recent funding round. They are hiring a Senior Perception Engineer to own a core part of their perception stack.

What you'd be doing

• Building the perception stack that lets a machine understand its surroundings
• Working across sensor fusion, SLAM, 3D vision, object detection, and tracking
• Taking models from research to reliable, real-time performance on hardware
• Working with camera, LiDAR, and radar data

What you'll bring

• 5+ years in perception or computer vision for robotics or autonomous systems
• Experience shipping perception software that runs on a real machine
• Strong C++ and Python
• Depth in at least one area: SLAM, sensor fusion, 3D reconstruction, or deep learning for vision
• Well funded, with a long runway and real customers
• A small senior team, so you'll own a big piece of the stack
• Your work goes onto real hardware, not just into papers
• Competitive base salary plus meaningful equity