Senior Robotics Vision, SLAM & Navigation Engineer

SiMa Technologies, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

SiMa Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Member of Technical Staff to advance vision-based perception, localization, and navigation for autonomous robots and drones. You will work on embedded/edge platforms and bridge traditional CV with modern deep learning approaches in a senior IC/robotics role.

Leading technical direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing long-term robotics and Physical AI strategy are key aspects. On-site in San Jose, CA, with equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience developing perception, localization, or navigation systems for autonomous robots.
• Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and ROS or ROS 2.
• Deep experience with visual odometry, visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, multi-view geometry, camera calibration, and sensor fusion.
• Strong foundation in traditional computer vision, including feature detection and matching, optical flow, epipolar geometry, pose estimation, triangulation, and bundle adjustment.
• Experience with deep-learning-based computer vision, including object detection, semantic or instance segmentation, depth estimation, tracking, or scene understanding.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop vision-based perception, localization, mapping, and navigation systems for AMRs, drones, and other robotic platforms.
• Develop and integrate visual odometry, visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and 3D scene-understanding pipelines.
• Apply both traditional computer vision and deep-learning techniques for feature extraction, object detection, segmentation, depth estimation, tracking, and obstacle understanding.
• Optimize and deploy computer vision and AI workloads on embedded and edge-compute platforms.
• Collaborate with robotics, hardware, AI, and systems teams to validate solutions in simulation, hardware-in-the-loop environments, and real-world deployments.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and contribute to the long-term vision for robotics and Physical AI.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics/Computer Vision/CS/EE or related field

Tools

ROS / ROS 2

OpenCV

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

SiMa Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Member of Technical Staff to advance vision-based perception, localization, and navigation for autonomous robots and drones. You will work on embedded/edge platforms and bridge traditional CV with modern deep learning approaches in a senior IC/robotics role.

Leading technical direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing long-term robotics and Physical AI strategy are key aspects. On-site in San Jose, CA, with equity and a comprehensive benefits package.