Robot Perception Engineer

About the Company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain real-time perception pipelines integrating and calibrating sensors like cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, and depth sensors
• Build and optimize object detection, tracking, and scene understanding systems for unstructured environments
• Own streaming infrastructure for delivering sensor data to foundation models and teleoperation systems
• Work with AI/ML teams to bridge perception outputs and learned policy inputs
• Implement and validate safety-certified perception components for collision avoidance
• Support bring-up and field testing of new camera hardware and sensor configurations
• Contribute to system reliability, fault detection, and recovery logic

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in robotics perception, computer vision, or a related field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
• Hands-on experience with sensor integration and calibration
• Experience building real-time perception pipelines on embedded or edge compute platforms
• Familiarity with streaming and networking systems for low-latency data transport
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
• Ability to debug across the full stack from drivers to live hardware

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with safety-certified or safety-critical perception systems
• Background in multi-sensor fusion and calibration
• Familiarity with teleoperation systems and latency constraints
• Experience deploying and optimizing perception models on edge compute (TensorRT, quantization)
• Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms
• Prior work on early-stage hardware programs