Rhoda AI

Rhoda AI

Robot Perception Engineer

Mountain View

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 68 days ago
PythonC++Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningComputer VisionRoboticsHardware DesignSensorsResearch

About the role

  • We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain real-time perception pipelines - integrating and calibrating sensors (cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, depth sensors) with our humanoid robot platforms
  • Build and optimize object detection, tracking, and scene understanding systems for safe operation in complex, unstructured environments
  • Own the streaming infrastructure that delivers sensor data reliably to foundation models, teleoperation systems, and onboard control stacks
  • Implement and validate safety-certified perception components, including object detection and collision avoidance, to meet real-world deployment requirements
  • Support bring-up and field testing of new camera hardware and sensor configurations
  • Experience building real-time perception pipelines on embedded or edge compute platforms
  • We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.
  • Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design.
  • You'll own the software that transforms raw sensor data into reliable, actionable perception - from sensor integration and calibration to safety-certified object detection and streaming data to our foundation models and teleoperation stack.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with sensor integration and calibration (cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, depth sensors)
  • Familiarity with streaming and networking systems for low-latency sensor data transport
  • Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in production or research contexts
  • Ability to debug across the full stack - from driver-level sensor issues to perception behavior on live hardware
  • Experience with safety-certified or safety-critical perception systems (e.g., ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or similar)
  • Familiarity with teleoperation systems and the latency and reliability constraints they impose
  • Experience deploying and optimizing perception models on edge or onboard compute (quantization, TensorRT, etc.)
  • Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms and the unique perception challenges they present

Nice to have

  • Nice to Have (But Not Required)

Benefits

  • 4+ years of experience in robotics perception, computer vision, or a closely related field

Company info

  • What We're Looking For
  • At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots.
  • We're looking for a Robot Perception Engineer to develop and maintain the perception systems that give our humanoid robots a real-time understanding of the world around them.

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