Senior Perception Engineer – Spatial Understanding & Navigation

Overview

Develop AI-driven spatial understanding and navigation for humanoid robots.

Key Responsibilities

• model integration
• auto‑labeling
• data pipelines
• spatial understanding
• 3d reconstruction
• team collaboration

Tasks

-Collaborate with cross-functional research and engineering teams to bring large vision-language models into real-world robotic systems. -Design and scale auto-labeling and large-scale data pipelines to train and evaluate multimodal models for navigation and interaction. -Develop next-generation spatial understanding systems for robot locomotion and manipulation, integrating perception and high-level reasoning. -Stay ahead of the field — rapidly evaluate new model architectures, benchmarks, and datasets to guide our embodied AI roadmap -Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics -Develop and implement scene understanding and 3D reconstruction methods that give robots persistent spatial memory and geometric awareness. -Work on open-ended navigation powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models — enabling robots to understand context, predict intent, and act in complex, dynamic environments.

Requirements

• pytorch
• scene understanding
• 3d reconstruction
• large models
• embodied ai
• research skills

What You Bring

-Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives -Strong background in scene understanding, spatial reasoning, or 3D reconstruction from visual data. -Strong experimental and research skills — capable of taking projects from concept to model training, evaluation, and robot integration. -Comfortable working in a fast-moving, research-driven environment with evolving models, data, and tools. -Proficiency in PyTorch and hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and deploying large-scale ML systems. -Deep experience in machine learning for vision or embodied AI, ideally with large models (VLMs, VLAs, transformers, diffusion, or multi-modal architectures).

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Benefits

-Office perks: free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and regular team events -Travel opportunities to our Vancouver and Boston offices -Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan -Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws, and additional paid sick leave days

About Humanoid

-Blends advanced AI, multimodal vision reasoning, and modular hardware into a robust platform targeting logistics, manufacturing, and retail. -The company pivots on commercial impact—solving repetitive physical tasks in real settings, not just lab experiments. -A cinematic teaser video set the tone for its vision: human-robot coexistence in everyday environments. -A standout is its modular design allowing interchangeable platforms—wheeled or legged—aimed at rapid and affordable deployment.

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