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Principal / Staff Robotics Perception Engineer

Simbe Robotics · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

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About Simbe Robotics

Backed by SOSV.

About the role

Simbe is looking for a Principal or Staff Robotics Perception Engineer to serve as a critical bridge between our Computer Vision and Robot Software teams. This role owns the path from perception models and sensor data to real robotic behavior in production environments. You will help Tally understand dynamic retail stores, improve autonomy, and translate Simbe's computer vision capabilities into more reliable navigation, localization, calibration, and customer facing intelligence.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in robotic perception, computer vision, machine learning, autonomous systems, or related production robotics work
  • Strong proficiency in Python and C++ in Linux based development environments
  • Hands-on experience with ROS and/or ROS2, robot sensor pipelines, and deployed robotics systems
  • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, TensorRT, CUDA, or similar model training and inference tools
  • Demonstrated track record of adoption of LLM assisted and agentic programming techniques
  • Strong understanding of object detection, segmentation, depth estimation, sensor fusion, calibration, visual localization, or SLAM
More about this role

Simbe is building the AI powered operating system for physical retail. Our autonomous robots and multimodal computer vision platform turn complex, constantly changing stores into accurate, actionable intelligence for leading retailers around the world. Simbe combines robotics, computer vision, machine learning, data infrastructure, and customer focused product design to help retailers improve shelf availability, price and promo execution, inventory accuracy, and store team productivity.

Simbe is looking for a Principal or Staff Robotics Perception Engineer to serve as a critical bridge between our Computer Vision and Robot Software teams. This role owns the path from perception models and sensor data to real robotic behavior in production environments. You will help Tally understand dynamic retail stores, improve autonomy, and translate Simbe's computer vision capabilities into more reliable navigation, localization, calibration, and customer facing intelligence.

  • You will work on real robots operating in complex, high variance environments, not only offline benchmarks.
  • Your work will improve autonomy and customer value across one of the largest real world retail robotics...

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