Robot Perception Engineer

The role

You will develop and maintain real-time perception pipelines for humanoid robots. You will transform raw sensor data into actionable perception for foundation models and teleoperation stacks.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain real-time perception pipelines
• Integrate and calibrate sensors including cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, and depth sensors
• Build and optimize object detection, tracking, and scene understanding systems
• Own streaming infrastructure for sensor data delivery to foundation models and teleoperation systems
• Work with the AI/ML team to bridge perception outputs and learned policy inputs
• Implement and validate safety-certified perception components
• Support bring-up and field testing of new camera hardware and sensor configurations
• Contribute to system reliability, fault detection, and recovery logic

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in robotics perception, computer vision, or a closely related field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
• Hands-on experience with sensor integration and calibration (cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, depth sensors)
• Experience building real-time perception pipelines on embedded or edge compute platforms
• Familiarity with streaming and networking systems for low-latency sensor data transport
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in production or research contexts
• Ability to debug across the full stack from driver-level sensor issues to perception behavior on live hardware

Nice to have

• Experience with safety-certified or safety-critical perception systems (e.g., ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or similar)
• Background in multi-sensor fusion and calibration for robust perception under real-world conditions
• Familiarity with teleoperation systems and the latency and reliability constraints they impose
• Experience deploying and optimizing perception models on edge or onboard compute (quantization, TensorRT, etc.)
• Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms and the unique perception challenges they present
• Prior work on early-stage hardware programs (prototype or pre-production robots)

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models.