Rhoda AI
Robot Perception Engineer
$175K–$280K
Mountain View · Full-time · Posted May 14, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years
About the job
Develops and maintains real-time perception systems that integrate robot sensor data, support safe operation, and deliver reliable inputs to foundation models, teleoperation, and onboard control systems.
What you'll do
- Integrate and calibrate sensors, and build real-time perception pipelines for humanoid robots.
- Develop object detection, tracking, scene understanding, and safety-related perception components.
- Maintain low-latency sensor-data streaming and support hardware bring-up, field testing, and system reliability.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience in robotics perception, computer vision, or a closely related field.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust.
- Hands-on sensor integration and calibration experience, and experience building real-time perception pipelines on embedded or edge platforms.
- Familiarity with low-latency streaming and networking systems, and experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware.
Nice to have
- Experience with safety-certified or safety-critical perception systems.
- Background in multi-sensor fusion and calibration.
Pay
$175K – $280K USD base salary
Tools
C++, Python, Rust, ROS/ROS2, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, TensorRT
AI focus
Connects perception outputs to learned policy inputs and streams sensor data to foundation models; develops perception systems for robotic AI.
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