Staff Perception Engineer (Team Lead)

Anyware Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity

Comprehensive health insurance

Flexible PTO

Paid sick leave

Daily meal credit

Job summary

Anyware Robotics is seeking a Senior/Staff AI Perception Engineer (Team Lead) to advance its production 3D AI perception stack for warehouse automation robots. You will own the perception roadmap, set technical direction, and stay hands-on in the codebase with a roughly 60/40 IC/leadership split.

You will lead, mentor, and grow the Perception Team while balancing accuracy, reliability, and latency to deliver impact in real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing and deploying AI perception systems with senior-level ownership of architecture and design decisions.
• Experience leading a technical team — setting direction, mentoring engineers, and owning delivery across multiple people.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Perception Team — set technical direction, plan, hire, onboard, and mentor engineers while delivering on commitments.
• Define the perception architecture and technology roadmap for production 3D AI perception stacks.
• Build and ship 3D AI perception on deployed robots, focusing on object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction within cycle-time constraints.
• Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs across accuracy, latency, compute cost, data availability, and maintainability while integrating perception with planning and controls.

Skills

AI perception systems

Leading a technical team

Architecture and design decisions

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Anyware Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulator robots for industrial applications. Our robots are trusted by customers across logistics, retail, and manufacturing, supporting applications such as truck unloading, mobile palletizing, and machine tending.

The Role

The robots run on AnywareOS, our industrial physical intelligence system. Its architecture is modular and designed to generalize across applications without reprogramming. We are seeking a Senior/Staff AI Perception Engineer (Team Lead) to advance Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack for warehouse automation robots, with a focus on object localization, pose estimation, scene reconstruction, and deployment on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.

This role is for an engineer who has taken AI perception from idea or prototype through production and real-world operation. You will make pragmatic tradeoffs across research potential, accuracy, reliability, latency, compute, data, maintainability, engineering effort, and delivery timelines, while providing senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, incident investigations, and mentoring.

This role also carries technical and people leadership for the Perception Team. You will own the perception roadmap, set technical direction across the team's projects, and grow both the size and the capability of the team — while remaining hands-on in the codebase. We expect roughly a 60/40 split between individual contribution and leadership.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow the Perception Team — set technical direction across the team's projects, run planning and prioritization, hire, onboard, and mentor engineers, and own delivery of the team's commitments while remaining hands-on in the codebase (roughly a 60/40 IC/leadership split).
• Define the perception architecture and technology roadmap — own senior-level architecture and design decisions for Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack, drive design reviews, and align the roadmap with product, customer, and cross-team release commitments.
• Build and ship 3D AI perception on deployed robots, hands-on — develop robust object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction pipelines using RGB-D and other sensing modalities, running on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.
• Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs across the robot system — balance accuracy, robustness, latency, compute cost, data availability, maintainability, and delivery timelines while integrating perception reliably with planning, manipulation, controls, and system software.

Required Skills

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing and deploying AI perception systems, with senior-level ownership of architecture and design decisions, balancing technical ambition with reliability, resources, maintainability, and delivery timelines.
• Experience leading a technical team — setting direction, mentoring engineers, running design reviews, and owning delivery across multiple people.

Nice to have

• Strong foundation in 3D geometry, camera models and calibration, RGB-D or point-cloud processing, and 3D object localization, segmentation, or pose estimation.
• Experience deploying robotic perception systems in warehouse, logistics, or other industrial environments.

Why Anyware

• An A+ Team: Anyware is built by top talents. Collectively, our team has won six Best Paper Awards and Finalists, including the ICRA 2025 Best Paper Award and ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award.
• An A+ Robot: Our robot, Pixmo, won the Best Innovation Award (top-1) at both ProMat 2025 and MODEX 2026 — the two largest logistics automation exhibitions in the world. Pixmo also won the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award.
• Real Impact: Your perception work does not stop at a demo. It ships into real customer sites, directly affects robot reliability and throughput, and must perform under real-world variation.
• Fast Growth: You will have strong ownership and real responsibility in a growing robotics company.
• Generous Equity: We offer generous equity in addition to salary and benefits.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is 180K-280K USD/year, depending on experience and qualifications.

Additional compensation may include equity, benefits, or other incentives, where applicable.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid sick leave
• Daily meal credit

Equal Opportunity Statement

Anyware is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

Anyware Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulater robots for industrial applications. Our robots are trusted by customers across logistics, retail, and manufacturing, supporting applications such as truck unloading, mobile palletizing, and machine tending.