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Our robots operate in demanding real-world environments alongside people and heavy cargo every day. We are a small, high-impact team based in Atlanta building products that are already deployed in production.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for a Robotics Perception Engineer to own the sensing and perception stack on our autonomous mobile robots. You will work across LiDAR, cameras, IMUs, and other sensor modalities to give our robots a reliable understanding of their environment-including trailers, pallets, dock infrastructure, and people. This is a hands-on role where your work ships to production robots operating in live freight facilities.\nWe need someone who has shipped software on real robots at real customer sites. You should have experience deploying perception systems that work reliably in unstructured or semi-structured environments, and you should be comfortable debugging sensor issues on physical hardware.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, implement, and maintain the perception pipeline for autonomous mobile robots, including object detection, segmentation, localization, and mapping\nIntegrate and calibrate LiDAR, depth cameras, and other sensors on production robot platforms\nDevelop robust point cloud processing and filtering for reliable operation\nBuild and maintain sensor fusion systems that combine multiple modalities for accurate environment understanding\nCreate and manage datasets for perception model training, validation, and regression testing\nCollaborate closely with navigation, controls, and hardware teams to ensure perception outputs meet downstream requirements\nDebug and resolve perception failures on deployed robots using logs, recorded sensor data, and on-site investigation\nContribute to CI/CD pipelines for perception software testing and deployment\nRequirements\n5+ years of professional experience building perception systems for physical robots at a robotics or autonomous vehicle company\nStrong proficiency in C++ and Python\nDeep experience with LiDAR processing (point cloud filtering, clustering, registration, SLAM)\nHands-on experience with camera-based perception\nProduction experience with ROS or ROS 2\nExperience with sensor calibration (intrinsic, extrinsic, multi-sensor)\nFamiliarity with machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) for perception tasks\nTrack record of deploying perception software to real robots in real environments-not just simulation\nStrong debugging skills and comfort working with physical hardware\nExcellent communication skills and ability to work in a small, fast-moving team\nNice to Have\nMaster’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field\nExperience with AWS IoT, Greengrass, or similar edge-cloud architectures\nExperience in logistics, warehousing, or freight environments\nBackground in Gazebo or other physics simulation for sensor modeling\nRemote Work Requirements\nThis role can be filled remotely. 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