FieldAI

FieldAI

Senior Reality Capture & Sensor Payload Engineer, Robotics Hardware

Irvine, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 2 days ago
Data EngineeringNLPRoboticsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignSignal ProcessingSensorsResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoringBIM

About the role

  • This spans sensor selection, calibration, electro-mechanical integration, validation, and the data pipelines that carry sensor output from capture through processing.
  • Examples of sensor modules include high-resolution LiDAR scanners, PTZ and thermal cameras, depth cameras, GNSS/RTK, and gas detection sensors.
  • Candidates should be familiar with concepts and workflows such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, digital twins, BIM, and deviation and change analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Module Hardware Design
  • Own multi-sensor calibration, including intrinsics, extrinsics, boresight alignment, and timing (PTP, PPS) across custom LiDAR and multi-camera systems.
  • Work with the mechanical and electrical teams to design the integration unit that mounts sensors onto the robot in a plug-and-play way, within SWaP-C constraints.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines that turn sensor captures into registered, georeferenced point clouds and photogrammetric reconstructions for the Insights team.
  • Strong foundation across mechanical design, electrical design, and sensor hardware, with the breadth to work across all three.
  • Strong communicator able to arbitrate between teams that each see only their own piece of the solution space.
  • Experience managing or mentoring junior engineers on detailed design execution.
  • Cross-Domain Engineering: Strong foundation across mechanical design, electrical design, and sensor hardware, with the breadth to work across all three.
  • Cross Functional Communication: Strong communicator able to arbitrate between teams that each see only their own piece of the solution space.
  • Leadership: Experience managing or mentoring junior engineers on detailed design execution.

Requirements

  • We're targeting 9+ years of experience for a senior to staff-level role, though we may consider more junior candidates with the right profile.
  • Working knowledge of point cloud and signal processing sufficient to evaluate software-based solutions to hardware problems.
  • Experience with electromechanical integration, mounting, enclosures, IP ratings, and connectors for ruggedized sensor payloads.
  • Direct experience with sensors such as LiDAR, gas detection, thermal imaging, or PTZ camera systems.
  • Familiarity with point cloud registration, photogrammetry and reconstruction, digital twin and BIM workflows, and deviation or change detection for environment mapping.
  • Experience Level: We're targeting 9+ years of experience for a senior to staff-level role, though we may consider more junior candidates with the right profile.
  • Data & Signal Processing Fluency: Working knowledge of point cloud and signal processing sufficient to evaluate software-based solutions to hardware problems.

Compensation

  • $150k-$200k

Company info

  • Field AI is transforming how robots interact with the real world. We are building risk-aware, reliable, and field-ready AI systems that address the most complex challenges in robotics, unlocking the full potential of embodied intelligence. We go beyond typical data-driven approaches or pure transformer-based architectures, and are charting a new course, with already-globally-deployed solutions delivering real-world results and rapidly improving models through real-field applications.
  • Reality Capture & Sensor Payload Engineer
  • In this role on the Hardware Team at Field AI, you will deliver the sensor modules that turn our robots into data-collection platforms for customers. This spans sensor selection, calibration, electro-mechanical integration, validation, and the data pipelines that carry sensor output from capture through processing. Examples of sensor modules include high-resolution LiDAR scanners, PTZ and thermal cameras, depth cameras, GNSS/RTK, and gas detection sensors. Candidates should be familiar with concepts and workflows such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, digital twins, BIM, and deviation and change analysis.
  • You will collaborate with the product team to select the right sensor for customers from hard industries such as construction and manufacturing. You will work closely with mechanical and electrical engineers to integrate each sensor into swappable modules on our robotic platform. You will own sensor performance such as calibration and time sync. As well as validate results through vibration and shock testing, point cloud evaluation, and other data quality checks. You may also lead the development of new custom reality capture sensors such as multicamera systems.
  • Sensor Selection & Cross-Team Coordination
  • Field AI is transforming how robots interact with the real world.
  • We are building risk-aware, reliable, and field-ready AI systems that address the most complex challenges in robotics, unlocking the full potential of embodied intelligence.
  • We go beyond typical data-driven approaches or pure transformer-based architectures, and are charting a new course, with already-globally-deployed solutions delivering real-world results and rapidly improving models through real-field applications.
  • In this role on the Hardware Team at Field AI, you will deliver the sensor modules that turn our robots into data-collection platforms for customers.
  • You will collaborate with the product team to select the right sensor for customers from hard industries such as construction and manufacturing.
  • You will work closely with mechanical and electrical engineers to integrate each sensor into swappable modules on our robotic platform.
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