Perception Engineer
Lightspeed, Northbrook, IL
The role
As a Perception Engineer, you will own how LightSpeed's robots see. You will design, calibrate, and deploy the multi-camera systems on our robot cells and end-of-arm tooling, and build the perception that guides manipulation in real time. Your camera streams also feed our teleoperation and robot learning pipelines, so the quality of what you build directly shapes how well our robots learn. This role sits at the intersection of sensor hardware, 3D vision, and deep learning, all deployed on physical robots where reliability matters.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Computer Vision, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Perception for robotic manipulation, especially dexterous or tool-based manipulation
- Experience with hardware video encoding (NVENC, Jetson Multimedia API), GStreamer, or WebRTC
- Experience with NVIDIA Isaac ROS / NITROS, VPI, or CV-CUDA
- Experience with point cloud registration and scan-to-CAD/BIM comparison
- Experience with vision foundation models (for example SAM, DINOv2, FoundationPose)