Senior Robotics Perception Engineer, Vision and Sensing

Symbotic; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking a Robotics Engineer specializing in Perception to advance perception systems for its AI-powered warehouse solutions. You will work on object detection, pose estimation, sensor fusion, and dataset creation from millions of daily cases, while aligning perception data with planning and manipulation stacks.

You will also enhance simulation environments to bridge the sim-to-real gap using cutting-edge techniques and contribute to scalable, end-to-end automation solutions across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of robotics engineering and robotic perception software development experience.
• Expertise in C++, C#, and/or Python; strong computer vision methods including segmentation, object detection, tracking, pose estimation, SLAM, 3D mapping, sensor calibration and fusion.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or JAX) and modern perception techniques like NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, LLMs, diffusion processes.

Responsibilities

• Design architectures that integrate state-of-the-art computer vision and deep learning techniques.
• Collaborate with robot planning and manipulation groups to embed perception data into control pipelines.
• Create and curate large-scale perception datasets from daily cases with automated labeling and QA.

Skills

C++

C#

Python

Computer vision

Pose estimation

SLAM

Sensor fusion

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics/CS/EE

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Gaussian Splatting

NeRFs

Job description

Symbotic is seeking a Robotics Engineer specializing in Perception to advance perception systems for its AI-powered warehouse solutions. You will work on object detection, pose estimation, sensor fusion, and dataset creation from millions of daily cases, while aligning perception data with planning and manipulation stacks.

You will also enhance simulation environments to bridge the sim-to-real gap using cutting-edge techniques and contribute to scalable, end-to-end automation solutions across