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State Estimation Engineer - Data Collection Systems

HQ💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and implement dual-tier state estimation algorithms for a next-generation data collection system powering real-time teleoperation and ultra-high-precision offline trajectory reconstruction for humanoid robots.

Role type

Senior IC state estimation engineer (robotics)

Builds

Dual-tier estimation pipelines and user-onboarding calibration routines for humanoid robot data collection systems

Domain

Robotics, Humanoid robots, Sensor fusion

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Real-time filtering ((E)KFs, sliding-window estimators), Offline batch optimization (Factor Graphs, GTSAM, Ceres, Non-Linear Least Squares), Multi-sensor fusion architectures, 3D spatial kinematics, Lie groups (SE(3), SO(3)), Forward/inverse kinematics, Constrained optimization, High-performance C++ for embedded/edge platforms, Python for data analysis

Preferred skills

Low-latency streaming pipelines for teleoperation/haptics, Human biomechanics/skeletal tracking, Machine Learning for motion priors/trajectory smoothing

Technologies

C++, Python, GTSAM, Ceres

Responsibilities

Design and implement dual-tier state estimation algorithms for real-time teleoperation and offline dataset generation; Develop subject-calibration procedures to estimate body segment dimensions and sensor-to-body extrinsics; Develop robust sensor fusion architectures combining spatial transforms, visual-inertial data, and inertial signals; Address spatiotemporal sensor calibration and kinematic constraint enforcement; Extract information from compliant tactile sensing; Diagnose hardware limitations and evaluate novel sensing modalities; Build diagnostic tooling and validation pipelines for algorithm accuracy evaluation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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