Research Robotics/Computer Vision Engineer
$250,000–$300,000 year
On-site · San Mateo, California, United States
Job Summary
Skild AI seeks a Research Robotics/Computer Vision Engineer in San Mateo, CA to develop perceptive, intelligent robotic systems focused on 3D computer vision and autonomous navigation. Responsibilities include implementing perception on robots for safe exploration, reconstructing 3D scenes from monocular inputs, developing tools for robot localization using visual inputs, building life-long mapping via pose-graph optimization, visual servoing for robot motion, mitigating glare in mapping, streaming data for training robot manipulation tasks, and maintaining a camera and 2D lidar-based navigation stack, along with deploying robust robotic software.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Vision, Robotics, or a directly related discipline
- 1 year of experience in Machine Learning or Data Science
- Experience with 3D scene reconstruction using monocular videos, meshes, point clouds, Neural Radiance Fields, and Gaussian Splats
- Experience reconstructing rigid and articulated hand-held objects from videos (inferring time-varying hand configurations and relative poses)
- Experience using generative computer vision (e.g., diffusion models) to guide reconstruction and address occlusion/variations
- Experience optimizing attention-based models for perception used in autonomous navigation
- Experience using Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to improve perception backbones
- Experience with cloud-based training in AWS, Google Cloud, or similar, and optimized data loading for distributed training (PyTorch dataloader/sharding)
- Experience with camera-based and 2D lidar navigation stacks
- Knowledge of life-long mapping and pose-graph optimization
- Familiarity with visual servoing and navigation in real-world environments
- Hands-on software development for perception and robotics pipelines
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