Senior Robotics Perception & Sensor Fusion Engineer

Parallel; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallel Systems is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to develop perception and sensor fusion algorithms for our autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. You will fuse data from lidar, camera, IMU, and GPS, and implement geometry-based vision and robotics methods while collaborating with ML and firmware teams for production deployment.

This role emphasizes real-time operation, rigorous validation, and end-to-end ownership of perception components, including sensor calibration and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying robotics or perception software in real-world systems.
• Strong background designing and implementing geometry-based computer vision and robotics algorithms (multi-view geometry, filtering, optimization); ML-based experience is a bonus.
• Proficiency in Rust and C/C++.
• Experience with real-time systems handling high-throughput, multi-modal sensor data and fusion across lidar, camera, IMU, and GPS.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain real-time robotics software that ingests and fuses high-throughput, multi-modal sensor data from lidar, camera, IMU, GPS, and other sensors.
• Implement, validate, and test real-time sensor fusion code across simulation and real-world deployments, catching regressions before they reach the field.
• Perform sensor calibration (intrinsic, extrinsic, temporal) and apply a strong foundation in linear algebra, 3D geometry, and optimization to state estimation problems.
• Design and implement geometry-based computer vision and robotics algorithms (multi-view geometry, filtering, tracking) for real-time perception; experience with ML-based approaches is a bonus.
• Evaluate sensor selection and system-level tradeoffs, and define test and validation plans that prove the system can run reliably 24/7 in production.
• Contribute to sensor system hardware design, including IP-rated, ruggedized enclosures and mounts built to hold up in real-world field conditions.
• Build and maintain sensor pipelines for real-time sensor and video data streaming and processing.
• Collaborate with ML, firmware, embedded platform, and systems engineering teams to integrate perception algorithms into the full autonomy stack.

Skills

Rust

C/C++

Robotics software

Sensor fusion

Real-time systems

Lidar data

Computer vision

ROS2

Education

Bachelor's degree in Robotics/CS/EE

Tools

GStreamer

ROS2

Kalman filters

3D geometry

SLAM

Job description

Parallel Systems is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to develop perception and sensor fusion algorithms for our autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. You will fuse data from lidar, camera, IMU, and GPS, and implement geometry-based vision and robotics methods while collaborating with ML and firmware teams for production deployment.

This role emphasizes real-time operation, rigorous validation, and end-to-end ownership of perception components, including sensor calibration and