Robotics Software - Perception ML Engineer
Gritt Robotics5 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy perception models for robotic manipulation and navigation.
- Drive the technical approach for real-world robotics deployments.
- Research 3D scene understanding, detection, segmentation, pose estimation, and world/video models.
- Develop metrics to evaluate large vision models.
- Work with multimodal data from cameras, LiDAR, and tactile sensors.
- Develop real and synthetic data pipelines for perception problems.
- Build scalable training and validation infrastructure.
- Collaborate with teams across the company.
Requirements
- M.S. or Ph.D. in robotics, vision, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or another engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience developing perception solutions for robotics applications such as manipulation and navigation.
- Experience with detection, segmentation, pose estimation, tracking, 3D reconstruction, world models, or vision-language models.
- Experience with synthetic-data pipelines and robotics simulation infrastructure, such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Blender, or Unity.
- Extensive experience with Python and machine-learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Ability to take ownership of tasks with light supervision.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- In-person role in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Opportunity to join an early team and directly shape the product and robotics AI capabilities.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Gritt Robotics
Gritt Robotics builds AI-driven robotic systems that attach to common construction equipment to automate labor-intensive tasks, verification, and planning for renewable energy projects. The company focuses first on large-scale solar, with systems already operating in harsh outdoor environments for critical infrastructure builds. Founded in 2023 and privately held, Gritt is backed by firms including Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, Obvious Ventures, Climactic, and Congruent Ventures.