Perception Engineer, Robot Safety
Tutor Intelligence2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build production perception and monitoring systems for robot safety using lidar and cameras.
- Own the software path from sensor readings to a stopped robot, including tests, failure modes, and upstream-failure behavior.
- Design and review safety-relevant systems that determine whether a robot may move.
- Use replayed field data, constructed scenarios, and hardware faults to identify and fix system weaknesses.
- Collaborate across product teams on work that affects robot safety.
- Contribute to safety strategy, risk assessments, deployment practices, and customer evidence as the fleet grows.
Requirements
- Experience shipping perception or monitoring software on robots or vehicles, including lidar or camera pipelines, detection, tracking, or sensor fusion on production hardware.
- Experience owning code where defects could injure someone, with understanding of the implications for design, testing, and review.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and C++ or similar, including real-time constraints and verifiable code.
- Some controls knowledge, including stopping distances, latency budgets, and how perception decisions become motion commands.
- Ability to identify weaknesses, propose fixes, and usually implement them.
- Preferred experience with robot or machinery safety standards such as ISO 10218, ISO 13849, or ANSI/RIA R15.06.
- Preferred experience with safety-rated sensors, safety validation of detectors, shared human-robot environments, or simulation and replay tooling for perception testing at scale.
About Tutor Intelligence
Tutor Intelligence builds AI-driven robotic systems and software to automate complex, short‑run packaging and post‑packaging work for contract packagers and manufacturers. The company sells and deploys robotic cells along with software and services to support reliable, scalable production operations. It is privately held and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.