Apptronik
Senior Perception Learning Engineer
$220K–$250K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Austin, TX - Experience
- 3- 5+ years building and shipping perception and/or SLAM systems in robotics or real-time vision applications.
- Education
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Develops and deploys real-time perception, SLAM, and sensor-fusion systems that help humanoid robots understand and navigate human environments.
What you'll do
- Design and optimize perception and SLAM pipelines, including mapping, localization, detection, tracking, segmentation, and scene understanding.
- Build multi-sensor fusion and scalable data, training, evaluation, and deployment systems for real-time robotics.
- Collaborate across robotics teams to integrate perception with locomotion, manipulation, safety, and human-robot interaction.
What they ask for
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong background in SLAM, VIO, probabilistic state estimation, and deep learning for computer vision.
- Experience with perception or SLAM systems, modern AI frameworks, and Python and modern C++.
- Experience deploying optimized perception or SLAM models on edge hardware and shipping systems into production robotics platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience with humanoid robots, bipedal locomotion, or manipulation.
- Experience with SLAM frameworks, model acceleration, or real-time middleware such as ROS 2.
Pay
$220,000 - $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Detectron2, YOLO, Python, modern C++
AI focus
Researches and deploys learning-based perception and SLAM models, including deep learning for detection, tracking, segmentation, scene understanding, and state estimation; supports model training, evaluation, and deployment.
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