Perception Engineer (London, UK)

Humanoid is the first AI and robotics company in the UK, creating the world’s most advanced, reliable, commercially scalable, and safe humanoid robots. Our first humanoid robot HMND 01 is a next-gen labour automation unit, providing highly efficient services across various use cases, starting with industrial applications.


We are looking for the Perception Engineer to join our team based in London, UK.

Responsibilities

• Build robust perception systems for real-time scene understanding, including object detection, classification, pose estimation, and human detection
• Build a system to track objects & people across the scene
• Develop and optimize pipelines for offline auto-labeling and real-time perception tasks to support dataset generation and model training
• Design and implement manipulation policies using imitation learning, diffusion policies, and other ML techniques
• Create and maintain datasets for manipulation tasks, including cleaning and augmentation pipelines
• Collaborate with reasoning and control teams to ensure perception aligns with spatial understanding and robotic actions

Expertise

• Proficiency in scene understanding technologies, including object and human detection, classification, and pose estimation
• Experience in building pipelines for offline auto-labeling and real-time processing
• Expertise in ML techniques for manipulation (e.g., imitation learning, diffusion policies, Vision Language Action – VLA)
• Strong understanding of dataset creation, cleaning, and augmentation
• Strong software engineering skills for real-world deployment, particularly on model optimisation for embedded systems
• Familiarity with the latest machine learning and robotics research

Benefits

• High competitive salary.
• 23 calendar days of vacation per year.
• Flexible working hours.
• Opportunity to work on the latest technologies in AI/ML, Robotics and others.
• Startup model, offering a dynamic and innovative work environment.

How to Apply

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