Perception Engineer (Computer Vision & Publications) - San Mateo, CA (Hybrid)

R Systems International - San Mateo, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Mateo, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Perception Engineer role focuses on developing and deploying advanced computer vision models to enhance robotic systems. The position involves integrating various sensing modalities and optimizing data pipelines to improve perception capabilities in diverse environments. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and may provide field support at customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art vision models.
• Help drive our computer vision approach, with particular focus on detection, 6-DOF pose estimation and localization.
• Integrate and work with multiple sensing modalities (cameras, LIDAR, radar etc).
• Develop and improve data pipelines, training and validation infrastructure.
• Research and develop state-of-the-art models to improve perception under challenging and diverse scenarios (bright sunlight, shadows, reflections, occlusions etc.).
• Optimize training and inference times/memory footprint on GPUs.
• Integrate, test, and deploy production-ready solutions.
• Travel to US-based customer sites and provide field support, if required.
• Collaborate with other teams within the company in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• M.S/Ph.D degree in robotics, vision, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering disciplines (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing perception solutions for robotic systems.
• Extensive experience in object detection, pose estimation, mapping and/or localization.
• Extensive experience in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or other relevant areas of Artificial Intelligence (e.g., as evidenced by industry experience, publication record).
• Extensive experience with Python and common frameworks like PyTorch.