Helix AI Engineer, Perception
Core
Building perception systems for autonomous humanoid robots to perform dynamic operations in real-world environments.
Role type
Senior IC perception engineer (robotics)
Builds
Autonomous humanoid robots (Figure 03) for commercial and home tasks
Domain
Robotics, Computer Vision, AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
production-level software engineering, ML engineering, probability, optimization, linear algebra, 3D vision, VIO/SLAM, Vision-Language Models, Diffusion Models, geometric computer vision
Preferred skills
CUDA programming, real-time systems optimization, scalable data engineering (Spark, Ray), strong publication record
Technologies
CUDA, Spark, Ray
Responsibilities
Develop onboard computer vision, localization, visuomotor policies, and offline data annotation; Own end-to-end product life cycle from ideation to deployment; Deliver reliable software for real-world application; Collaborate to optimize the autonomy stack
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC