Perception Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California; based in the Bay Area with the ability to be onsite at the SF office on a daily or weekly basis.

Company

hirify.global deploys autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment to improve job-site safety and accelerate critical infrastructure projects.

What you will do

• Extend, modify, and adapt existing perception signals for customer analytics.
• Define and scope feasible applications of advanced perception systems with customers.
• Develop perception features for measuring dig productivity and safety across construction sites.
• Work with camera, lidar, and other sensor data to support real-world analytics.
• Deploy models and analytics directly to fleets of autonomous machines.

Requirements

• MSc or advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of professional experience shipping perception systems to production, ideally on robotic or embedded platforms.
• Hands-on experience with a modeling framework such as PyTorch and proficiency in Python.
• Ability to read and write at least one systems language, such as C++ or Rust.
• Experience incorporating camera, lidar, and IMU data into learned pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of 3D geometry, sensor calibration, coordinate transforms, camera re-projection, and sensor-data analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience working with customers to understand perception data and analytics.
• Experience with Rust.
• Published work in venues such as ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, CoRL, or RSS.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside construction veterans and engineers on physical-world robotics problems.
• Build and deploy autonomous systems in real construction environments.
• Flexible roles may consider candidates from other locations, particularly locations with company offices such as San Francisco or New York.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during hiring.