Sr. AI Perception Engineer

Anyware Robotics•Fremont, CA

About The Position

Anyware Robotics is seeking a senior individual-contributor engineer to advance its production 3D AI perception stack for warehouse automation robots. The role focuses on object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction, with perception systems deployed on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints. The engineer will build and operate perception that works with real sensor data and physical systems, taking capabilities from development through production and real-world operation. The engineer will own perception capabilities end to end within their area, including problem definition, model and pipeline development, deployment on robot hardware, monitoring, failure analysis, and production improvement. The role involves making pragmatic tradeoffs across accuracy, reliability, latency, compute, data, maintainability, engineering effort, and delivery timelines. The engineer will own design decisions in their area, contribute to architecture and design reviews, and work with the Perception Team Lead and Staff engineers, who set technical direction across the perception stack.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
At least 3 years of professional experience developing AI perception systems for physical robots or comparable real-world machines.
Hands-on proficiency building AI perception models using PyTorch or similar frameworks.
Hands-on proficiency building real-time perception pipelines in Python and C++.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying and operating AI perception in production on physical robots, including running models under latency and compute constraints on robot hardware and owning reliability in the field.
Strong foundation in 3D geometry, camera models and calibration, RGB-D or point-cloud processing, and 3D object localization, segmentation, or pose estimation.
Experience with ROS or ROS2 for real-time robotic perception pipelines, including sensor-data processing and model integration.
Experience deploying robotic perception systems in warehouse, logistics, or other industrial environments.

Responsibilities

Develop robust object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction models and pipelines using RGB-D and other sensing modalities, running on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.
Own perception capabilities end to end, from problem definition and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, failure analysis, and production improvement within Anyware's existing perception stack.
Diagnose and fix perception failures caused by difficult scenes, changing lighting, sensor noise, and gaps between training data and customer environments.
Improve production readiness through better data, evaluation, regression testing, release criteria, observability, and systematic root-cause analysis of field failures.
Balance accuracy, robustness, latency, compute cost, data availability, maintainability, and delivery timelines while integrating perception with planning, manipulation, controls, and system software.
Own design decisions in the engineer's area and contribute to architecture and design reviews.