Perception Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Carlos, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops humanoid robots designed to perform household tasks safely in real-world environments. Its flagship NEO robot combines robotics, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing at production scale.

What you will do

• Own perception systems for NEO from initial prototypes through fleet-wide deployment.
• Develop kinematic calibration systems that recover each robot’s geometry from camera data.
• Build 3D scene understanding, terrain reconstruction, and human and object pose estimation for locomotion and manipulation.
• Design sensor synchronization and fusion across cameras and inertial sensors.
• Automate intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration on the production line and monitor drift across deployed robots.
• Establish datasets and evaluation metrics that connect perception changes to real robot behavior.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, or an advanced degree with equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience training, evaluating, and deploying deep learning models for detection, depth, or pose estimation in PyTorch.
• Strong geometric computer vision skills, including camera models, multi-view geometry, nonlinear optimization, and intrinsic and extrinsic calibration.
• Strong Python and modern C++ skills, with experience in testing, code review, and large shared codebases.
• Experience owning perception capabilities end to end, from problem definition through deployment and iteration on real hardware failures.
• Experience with visual-inertial odometry or SLAM, sensor synchronization and fusion, robot kinematics, or frame transformations.

Nice to have

• Experience with segmentation and classification models, open-vocabulary or foundation backbones, and domain-specific fine-tuning.
• Experience with differentiable rendering, neural rendering, or Gaussian splatting for scene and terrain reconstruction.
• Experience automating calibration and validation in manufacturing or building field diagnostic tools.
• Familiarity with radar, thermal, or near-infrared sensing.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company matching, plus FSA and HSA options.
• Commuter benefits, disability and life insurance, and an employee assistance program.
• On-site snacks and catered lunches.