Senior Perception Engineer

Overview

If you like the sound of this role and want to relocate - the Client is willing to help facilitate this move!

We believe artificial intelligence is opening new horizons for humanity. By developing fully functional humanoid robots, we aim to help build a future of abundance, opportunity, and well-being — where people are free to choose meaningful work while machines handle dangerous, repetitive, and undesirable tasks.

As a Senior Perception Engineer – Spatial Understanding & Navigation, you will lead the development of advanced perception and spatial intelligence systems that enable robots to move, understand, and interact with the real world.

You will build the intelligence that allows robots to interpret complex environments, reason about context, and act autonomously.

• Develop next-generation spatial understanding systems for robot locomotion and manipulation
• Build open-ended navigation powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
• Design large-scale data pipelines and auto-labelling systems for multimodal training
• Implement scene understanding and 3D reconstruction for persistent spatial memory
• Integrate large vision-language models into real-world robotic platforms
• Evaluate new model architectures, datasets, and benchmarks to guide embodied AI strategy
• Collaborate with robotics, research, and platform engineering teams

• Strong experience in machine learning for vision, robotics, or embodied AI
• Deep expertise in scene understanding, spatial reasoning, or 3D perception
• Hands-on experience with large models (VLMs, VLAs, transformers, diffusion, multimodal models)
• Advanced PyTorch skills and experience deploying large-scale ML systems
• Strong research and experimentation mindset — from concept to production
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, research-driven startup environment

• Competitive salary plus stock options
• If you need to relocate, the Client can help assist with this ⚡
• Paid annual leave and additional sick leave (aligned with local labour laws)
• ✈️ Travel opportunities to our Vancouver and Boston offices
• 🍳 Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and regular team events
• 🚀 High ownership and real influence over product direction
• 🤝 Collaboration with world-class engineers and AI researchers
• ⚡ Startup culture focused on speed, transparency, and minimal bureaucracy

If you are interested - please apply directly!