Parallel Systems

Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Perception

$163K–$234K

Los Angeles, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, California, United States
Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying robotics or perception software in real-world systems.
Education: Bachelor's or higher degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered.

About the job

Develop and deploy real-time perception and sensor-fusion software that enables autonomous rail vehicles to understand their surroundings.

Build, test, and maintain real-time pipelines and algorithms that fuse lidar, camera, IMU, GPS, and other sensor data.
Develop geometry-based perception, calibration, state-estimation, and tracking algorithms, and validate them in simulation and field deployments.
Work with engineering teams on sensor selection, system integration, hardware considerations, and production test plans.

Bachelor's or higher degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered.
4+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying robotics or perception software in real-world systems.
Strong background implementing geometry-based computer vision and robotics algorithms.
Proficiency in Rust and C/C++; experience with real-time systems and multimodal sensor fusion across lidar, camera, IMU, and GPS.

Experience with sensor fusion, localization/SLAM, online calibration, or GStreamer.
Experience with ROS2 or similar robotics middleware, rugged robotic hardware, or autonomous vehicles and other safety-critical domains.

$163,000 — $234,000 USD (base salary)

Rust, C/C++, lidar, camera, IMU, GPS, GStreamer, ROS2

Develop geometry-based perception algorithms; ML-based approaches are a bonus.

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