Perception Engineer
hace 21 horas
Cambridge
PERCEPTION ENGINEER – MULTI-ROBOT AUTONOMY Location: Cambridge, UK. Hybrid with regular on-site work. Salary: £80,000 – £100,000 plus equity. Overview An early-stage autonomy company is hiring a Founding Perception Engineer to build the perception layer for a multi-robot autonomy platform. The system enables robotic teams to understand, reason about, and operate within complex environments, including degraded sensing and communications. This is a founding-level role with ownership of perception architecture, from raw sensor inputs through to structured world models used for decision-making. The work focuses on robustness, interpretability, and real-world deployment rather than isolated research outputs. Role Responsibilities You own the end-to-end perception stack used across a heterogeneous fleet of robots. Key responsibilities include: • Design and implementation of perception pipelines that convert raw sensor data into structured world representations., • Multi-sensor fusion across cameras, LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU., • Probabilistic reasoning under uncertainty and partial observability., • Maintaining spatial and temporal consistency across distributed robotic agents., • Integration of perception outputs with behaviour and planning systems., • Development of evaluation, validation, and iteration workflows using simulation and real-world data., • Close collaboration with Behaviour, Systems, and Platform engineers to define clean interfaces and APIs., • Contributing to the perception roadmap and long-term autonomy architecture. Technical Skillset The ideal candidate brings: • Strong background in robotic perception, computer vision, or autonomy systems., • Experience building full perception pipelines rather than isolated models., • Solid understanding of sensor fusion and uncertainty modelling., • Familiarity with ROS 2 and perception tooling within its ecosystem., • Experience working with simulation environments such as Isaac Lab, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar., • Production-quality programming skills in C++ and Python. Profile and Mindset This role suits someone who: • Enjoys ownership and architectural responsibility., • Values clarity, robustness, and explainability in perception systems., • Is comfortable working in early-stage, research-heavy environments., • Wants their work to directly influence robotic decision-making., • Enjoys collaborating across disciplines to solve system-level problems. Working Style and Expectations • High ownership during early roadmap definition and execution., • Regular on-site collaboration in Cambridge., • Small, senior technical team with direct access to founders., • Focus on delivering capability rather than publishing outputs. Compensation and Upside • Competitive base salary., • Meaningful equity aligned with early impact., • Opportunity to define perception foundations for a long-term autonomy platform.