AI Perception Engineer

Description

About Anyware

Anyware Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulator robots for industrial applications. Our robots are trusted by customers across logistics, retail, and manufacturing, supporting applications such as truck unloading, mobile palletizing, and machine tending.

The Role

The robots run on AnywareOS
, our industrial physical intelligence system. Its architecture is modular and designed to generalize across applications without reprogramming. We are seeking a Staff AI Perception Engineer to advance Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack for warehouse automation robots, with a focus on object localization, pose estimation, scene reconstruction, and deployment on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.

This role is for an engineer who has taken AI perception from idea or prototype through production and real-world operation. You will make pragmatic tradeoffs across research potential, accuracy, reliability, latency, compute, data, maintainability, engineering effort, and delivery timelines, while providing senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, incident investigations, and mentoring.

This is a hands-on Staff individual-contributor role with broad technical leadership responsibility. You will help shape the perception roadmap, set technical direction across projects, mentor engineers, and raise the team's technical capability through architecture decisions, design reviews, and hands-on implementation.

What you'll do

• Provide hands-on technical leadership — set technical direction across perception projects, lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, and help teams resolve difficult technical problems while remaining deeply involved in implementation and production debugging.
• Define the perception architecture and technology roadmap — own senior-level architecture and design decisions for Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack, drive design reviews, and align the roadmap with product, customer, and cross-team release commitments.
• Build and ship 3D AI perception on deployed robots, hands-on — develop robust object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction pipelines using RGB-D and other sensing modalities, running on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.
• Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs across the robot system — balance accuracy, robustness, latency, compute cost, data availability, maintainability, and delivery timelines while integrating perception reliably with planning, manipulation, controls, and system software.

Required Skills

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing and deploying AI perception systems
  , with senior-level ownership of architecture and design decisions
  , balancing technical ambition with reliability, resources, maintainability, and delivery timelines.
• Demonstrated technical leadership — setting technical direction, owning architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and leading design reviews or cross-functional technical execution. Direct people-management experience is not required.

Nice to have

• Experience managing, hiring, or growing a small technical team.
• Strong foundation in 3D geometry, camera models and calibration, RGB-D or point-cloud processing, and 3D object localization, segmentation, or pose estimation.
• Experience deploying robotic perception systems in warehouse, logistics, or other industrial environments.

Why Anyware

• An A+ Team: Anyware is built by top talents. Collectively, our team has won six Best Paper Awards and Finalists, including the ICRA 2025 Best Paper Award and ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award.
• An A+ Robot: Our robot, Pixmo, won the Best…