Cartesian Systems
Postdoctoral Associate
Cambridge, MA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Experience
- About to complete or recently completed a PhD; minimum 1-year position.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
About the job
Develop and improve spatial AI, indoor positioning, and sensor-fusion algorithms, validate them on customer deployments, and help ship production changes to enterprise customers.
What you'll do
- Explore sensor-fusion and spatial AI research directions aligned with product needs.
- Develop and improve indoor-positioning and spatial-perception algorithms; run deployment experiments to identify and validate fixes.
- Contribute to production ML and signal-processing pipelines and collaborate with engineering and product to ship features.
What they ask for
- About to complete or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
- Published research in top-tier CS/ML, vision, robotics, or related venues.
- Strong foundations in at least one of machine learning, perception, sensor fusion, or signal processing.
- Demonstrated research output, such as strong publications, open-source projects, or impactful applied work.
Nice to have
- Startup or early-stage company experience; experience shipping products.
- Experience or strong interest in spatial AI, such as 3D vision, SLAM, mapping, sensor fusion, or geometric deep learning.
Tools
machine learning, perception, sensor fusion, signal processing, spatial AI, 3D vision, SLAM, geometric deep learning
AI focus
Research and develop spatial AI, sensor fusion, indoor positioning, and spatial perception for a deployed enterprise product.
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