Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception

Highlights

• Own perception architecture for Digit humanoid in dynamic warehouses.
• Enable safe operation around people, forklifts and robots in open spaces.
• Define safety case and validation for ML perception in rare scenarios.

What they offer

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays for exempt staff
• Catered lunches 4x/week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh
• Generous paid parental leave
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement
• Relocation assistance for eligible roles
• Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles

Ideal candidate

Veteran perception leader with 8+ years building safety-critical robotics systems who thrives owning architecture and mentoring teams. Passionate about trustworthy autonomy where seeing people reliably matters most.

Requirements

• 8+ years in machine learning/perception for robotics with system architecture track record
• Master's or Ph.D. in AI, Robotics, Computer Science or related field
• Experience architecting ML/perception for safety-critical contexts
• Expertise in CNNs, multi-object tracking, data association and pose estimation
• Experience with system tradeoffs across sensing, redundancy and embedded compute
• Track record setting organization-level technical direction