# Senior Perception Engineer at XDOF

- Company: XDOF
- What the company does: Defining motion for autonomous systems. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.xdof.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo Hybrid
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-06-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/xdof/e3c4b9ed-94ca-40b1-a432-d8eda69949af
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xdof-senior-perception-engineer/

## About the role

Design and optimize hand pose estimation pipelines supporting accurate joint angle extraction from teleoperation data collection Build full-body pose estimation systems for motion capture and teleoperation action annotation ground truth generation

## What they're looking for

- Must-Have
- 5+ years of industry experience in robot perception or computer vision
- Strong 3D vision fundamentals: stereo and structured-light camera principles, 3D reconstruction
- Proficiency with SLAM frameworks (ORB-SLAM, VINS-Mono, FastLIO, etc.) or V-SLAM system development experience
- Hands-on engineering experience with human pose estimation: hand joints (MediaPipe, MANO) or full-body pose (OpenPose, SMPLify, etc.)
- Proficient in deep learning training frameworks for perception model training, tuning, and evaluation

Tags: Robotics