{"id":2188536,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bleu-robotics-research-engineer-vision-perception","title":"Research Engineer — Vision & Perception","company":{"id":3873043,"name":"Bleu Robotics","domain":"bleu-robotics.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bleu-robotics","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Paris, France"],"countries":["FR"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":61000,"max_usd":127000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":94},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Embodied AI","optional":false},{"name":"Localization","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-03T20:18:56Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-03","last_verified_at":"2026-10-14T12:59:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":102,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":102},"description":"About us\nBleu Robotics is an AI company developing universal AI software for the deployment of advanced robots , humanoids, mobile manipulators, and industrial arms, in real factories. The convergence of humanoid robotics and modern AI is one of the most significant technical opportunities of the decade, and most of the work today still happens in research settings. We are building the software layer required to bring it into operational use.\nWe have a strong ambition to become the next Microsoft to run on every industrial humanoid. We have closed our pre-seed round with Top-tier fund to deploy our robot in Tier 1 manufacturing facilities.\nWe are looking for deeply passionate scientists who can help us push the frontier and build a major lab in physical AI.\nOur vision\nTo enable a robot to learn a new industrial task from a few demonstrations and operate autonomously, with under one hour between the start of the demonstration and the start of deployment.\nThis objective shapes our roadmap and every technical decision we make.\nThe role\nWe are hiring Research Scientists in Vision & Perception to design the perception stack that makes our robots understand their environment well enough to act in it reliably. Your work will define how our robots see the world, what they recognize, how robustly, and from how little data.\nIndustrial environments are visually complex, varied, and unforgiving: changing lighting, cluttered scenes, novel objects, and a hard requirement to work in production without supervision. The perception layer has to deliver the spatial and semantic understanding required for learned manipulation policies to succeed, across the many tasks, objects, and sites we will deploy on. Hitting our one-hour demonstration-to-deployment target depends directly on perception methods that work robustly out of the box, with minimal site-specific tuning.\nThis is a research role focused on shipping algorithms into a real product. We are an early-stage company and do not publish at this stage. You will work in close collaboration with the Robot Learning and Integration teams to ensure the methods you develop run on real robots, in real factories.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, prototype, and evaluate perception algorithms for robotic manipulation - object recognition, segmentation, pose estimation, scene understanding, and related areas\n\nAdvance our internal state of the art in perception for embodied agents, with a focus on robustness and data efficiency\n\nRun rigorous experiments on real robots, and contribute to the data, evaluation, and infrastructure needed to do so (we will support you in ramping up on robotics if your background is primarily in vision)\n\nTranslate research prototypes into perception components robust enough to ship as part of our product\n\nCollaborate with the Robot Learning and Integration teams to move research from prototype to production\n\nHelp shape the long-term research agenda of the company\n\nThe team\nThe engineering team is organized around three focus areas with multiple contributors each: Integration, Vision & Perception (this role), and Robot Learning. Early hires will help shape the research agenda, engineering practices, hiring, and culture.\nRequired qualifications\nPhD or MSc in computer vision, robotics, machine learning, or a closely related field, from a leading research lab or strong experience in research environments\n\nTrack record of published research at top venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, RSS, or equivalent\n\nDemonstrated research expertise in computer vision or machine perception - object recognition, segmentation, pose estimation, scene understanding, 3D perception, or representation learning for vision\n\nStrong Python skills and fluency with PyTorch\n\nHands-on experience training, evaluating, and debugging modern vision systems\n\nProfessional proficiency in English (internal working language)\n\nPreferred qualifications\nThe strongest candidates will combine deep research expertise with experience across several of the following:\n3D vision - depth estimation, geometric reasoning, point cloud processing, or 3D scene reconstruction\n\nPerception for robotic manipulation, including grasping and interaction\n\nExperience working with real robots (any platform - 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