Perception Engineer

5 days ago

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom TECHNE Full time

PERCEPTION ENGINEER – MULTI-ROBOT AUTONOMY

Location: Cambridge, UK. Hybrid with regular on-site work.

Salary: £80,000 – £100,000 plus equity.

Overview

An early-stage autonomy company is hiring a Founding Perception Engineer to build the perception layer for a multi-robot autonomy platform.

The system enables robotic teams to understand, reason about, and operate within complex environments, including degraded sensing and communications.

This is a founding-level role with ownership of perception architecture, from raw sensor inputs through to structured world models used for decision-making.

The work focuses on robustness, interpretability, and real-world deployment rather than isolated research outputs.

Role Responsibilities

You own the end-to-end perception stack used across a heterogeneous fleet of robots.

Key responsibilities include:


• Design and implementation of perception pipelines that convert raw sensor data into structured world representations.


• Multi-sensor fusion across cameras, LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU.


• Probabilistic reasoning under uncertainty and partial observability.


• Maintaining spatial and temporal consistency across distributed robotic agents.


• Integration of perception outputs with behaviour and planning systems.


• Development of evaluation, validation, and iteration workflows using simulation and real-world data.


• Close collaboration with Behaviour, Systems, and Platform engineers to define clean interfaces and APIs.


• Contributing to the perception roadmap and long-term autonomy architecture.

Technical Skillset

The ideal candidate brings:


• Strong background in robotic perception, computer vision, or autonomy systems.


• Experience building full perception pipelines rather than isolated models.


• Solid understanding of sensor fusion and uncertainty modelling.


• Familiarity with ROS 2 and perception tooling within its ecosystem.


• Experience working with simulation environments such as Isaac Lab, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar.


• Production-quality programming skills in C++ and Python.

Profile and Mindset

This role suits someone who:


• Enjoys ownership and architectural responsibility.


• Values clarity, robustness, and explainability in perception systems.


• Is comfortable working in early-stage, research-heavy environments.


• Wants their work to directly influence robotic decision-making.


• Enjoys collaborating across disciplines to solve system-level problems.

Working Style and Expectations


• High ownership during early roadmap definition and execution.


• Regular on-site collaboration in Cambridge.


• Small, senior technical team with direct access to founders.


• Focus on delivering capability rather than publishing outputs.

Compensation and Upside


• Competitive base salary.


• Meaningful equity aligned with early impact.


• Opportunity to define perception foundations for a long-term autonomy platform.

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