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It's this very spirit that drives us to build a robotic machinery platform, delivering a service that brings unprecedented efficiency, productivity, and cost to farmers. Join our fast-growing, industrious, and passionate team of innovators as we continue to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry.\nAs a Perception-focused Robotics Engineer at Sabanto, you will be building the sensing and perception systems that let autonomous tractors and other agricultural equipment see and understand the world around them. You will take real sensors from the bench to production field environments - dust, glare, rain, crop canopy and all - and turn their data into a reliable picture of the world that our navigation, safety and control systems can trust.\nRESPONSIBILITIES & OUTCOMES\nDesign, build and harden perception pipelines - obstacle detection, classification and tracking - that keep autonomous agricultural equipment operating safely in the field\nIntegrate real sensors (cameras, LiDAR, radar, GNSS/IMU) onto tractors and implements, including drivers, intrinsic/extrinsic calibration and time synchronization\nFuse multi-sensor data into a dependable world model that feeds navigation, safety, control and sequencing systems\nEvaluate, select and integrate third-party sensors and perception vendors, from bench prototype through production deployment\nDeploy and optimize computer vision models on edge compute within real-time latency, thermal and power constraints\nBuild data collection, labeling and evaluation pipelines from field logs to measure and improve perception performance across crops, seasons, lighting and weather\nTriage, reproduce and resolve perception issues seen in the field using recorded sensor data\nOccasional travel to observe and refine perception systems at customer sites\nWrite tested, hardened and safe code - unit tests, replay tests against real field data, and on-vehicle validation before every change ships\nQUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor's in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering or a related field\nStrong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with comfort in geometry, linear algebra and probabilistic estimation\nAn entrepreneurial attitude with a keen eye for detail\nCan code with and without AI help.\nOrganized, disciplined, and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously\nIndustrious - ideally can drive, or willing to learn to drive, tractors, and anything with four wheels\nAg-gnostic - Excited about learning the ag industry, understanding what's important to farmers and helping them be successful with our offerings\nDESIRED EXPERIENCE\n5+ years building perception, computer vision or other real-time sensing applications, with a track record of shipping to production hardware outside the lab\nMastery of C++ and/or Python\nMastery of ROS/ROS2, including sensor drivers and high-bandwidth message pipelines\nHands-on experience integrating and calibrating real cameras, LiDAR and/or radar in production environments\nExperience with computer vision and point cloud libraries (OpenCV, PCL, Open3D or similar)\nExperience training and deploying deep learning models for detection or segmentation on edge hardware (PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, NVIDIA Jetson or similar)\nExperience with sensor fusion, state estimation and multi-object tracking (e.g. Kalman filters)\nExperience working with Geospatial data a plus\nFamiliarity with functional safety standards for autonomous machinery (e.g. ISO 25119, ISO 18497, ISO 13849) a plus\nExperience working with Docker-based software and build pipelines a plus\nBENEFITS\nAt Sabanto, every member of our team moves the needle. With a firm footing in our core company values, we've built a fast-paced, demanding work culture that allows for the flexibility, autonomy, and career opportunities you'd expect from a growing company. We offer competitive benefits including:\nWorking on a concept that will forever disrupt the agriculture industry\nThe chance to make an immediate impact and do the best work of your life\nUnlimited Vacation and flexible time\n401k, medical, dental\nOUR CORE VALUES\nOwn It - Be self-driven, entrepreneurial, and efficient\nRaise the Bar - Challenge complacency and mediocrity; be adaptable and agile; details matter\nBe As One - Trust, collaborate, and support; invest in co-workers and customers\nEmbrace Curiosity - Always be learning, be curious and share; be humbled but not embarrassed by mistakes\nDo the Right Thing - Act with integrity, even when no one is looking; be transparent\nEmpower Farmers - Create solutions where customers, i.e. farmers, win\nAt Sabanto, we value diversity of culture and background for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Sabanto is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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