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Founding Robotics Perception Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building the perception stack for public transit technology, including data collection, object detection, sensor fusion, and localization.

Role type

Founding Robotics Perception Engineer (IC)

Builds

Production perception software and AI/ML models for public transit systems

Domain

Autonomous vehicles / Public transit / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Vehicle perception model training, 2D/3D lidar sensor fusion, complex robotic software architecture, LLM-assisted coding

Preferred skills

Master's/PhD in Robotics/CS, 6+ years perception stack experience, automated vehicle platform experience, hardware integration experience

Technologies

2D/3D lidar, AI/ML/RL frameworks, LLMs

Responsibilities

Build and ship core AI/ML/RL models for perception and sensor fusion; Optimize software architecture for the product stack; Drive product iteration via data collection pipelines; Shape the technical roadmap by identifying performance bottlenecks

Seniority

Founding team, hands-on IC

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