Senior Research Perception Engineer

Senior Perception Engineer - Spatial Understanding & Navigation 🤖🌍

📍 London, UK
(If you like the sound of this role and want to relocate - the Client is willing to help facilitate this move!)

🌎 Our Vision

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.

👨‍💻 The Role

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.

🛠️ What You'll Do

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

🎯 What We're Looking For

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

🎁 What We Offer

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 bureaucracyIf you are interested - please apply directly!

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