Staff Robotics Perception Engineer (Remote)

5V Tech; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

5V Tech is seeking a Staff Perception Engineer, Robotics for a fully remote role across the United States. You will own the perception stack from sensors to scene understanding on deployed robots, setting architecture, deploying to the fleet, and helping scale the team.

You will design and build the perception stack (detection, tracking, 3D understanding), fuse LiDAR, camera, GPS and IMU, and optimize for latency and power on embedded compute.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands‑on perception engineering, shipped to production on real, imperfect hardware.
• Production‑grade modern C++, with perception running natively on the robot.
• Strong fundamentals in multi‑view geometry, camera models and tracking.
• Hands on experience with 3D/2.5D perception, such as point clouds, depth, or LiDAR‑camera fusion, ideally including overhead or beyond‑2D obstacle problems.
• End‑to‑end ownership of a perception system, ideally at an early‑stage company.
• Fluency with AI tools, balanced with strong independent engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the full perception stack: detection, tracking and 3D scene understanding.
• Fuse LiDAR, camera, GPS and IMU for reliable perception outdoors, in all conditions.
• Solve true 2.5D/3D problems, including overhead obstacles, not just what's ahead.
• Deploy and optimize on embedded compute with tight latency and power limits.
• Build the tooling and metrics to measure and improve performance in the field.

Skills

Perception engineering

C++ (production-grade)

Multi-view geometry

3D/2.5D perception

AI tooling fluency

End-to-end system ownership

Tools

TensorRT

CUDA

Job description

5V Tech is seeking a Staff Perception Engineer, Robotics for a fully remote role across the United States. You will own the perception stack from sensors to scene understanding on deployed robots, setting architecture, deploying to the fleet, and helping scale the team.

You will design and build the perception stack (detection, tracking, 3D understanding), fuse LiDAR, camera, GPS and IMU, and optimize for latency and power on embedded compute.