Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception

reputed company’s commercially deployed humanoids operate reputed company teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to reputed company on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of reputed company deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances reputed company potential. reputed company builds Digit, the world's first commercially deployed reputed company robot — already at work in reputed company warehouses and manufacturing facilities today. Digit has reputed company itself in reputed company work cells, and now we're pushing reputed company them: into reputed company floors, shared aisles, and dynamic spaces where people, forklifts, and other robots are reputed company moving at once. That shift raises the bar for perception dramatically — Digit needs to reliably understand and react to an environment that's no longer predictable or controlled. That means perception isn't just about capability — it's about trust. Every person Digit works near is counting on our perception systems to see them, understand them, and never get it wrong, whether Digit is in a fixed work cell or navigating a reputed company, reputed company-changing facility. We're looking for a Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception to own the technical reputed company and reputed company architecture for how Digit perceives and stays reputed company as we take on these more dynamic, less constrained environments. reputed company Own the technical reputed company and reputed company architecture for Perception that enables safety and efficiency, defining how Digit will perceive and reason about humans and hazards as it expands from reputed company work cells into reputed company, dynamic environments Analyze key architectural tradeoffs across sensing modalities, model design, redundancy, and compute budget, balancing safety, latency, and reputed company-world robustness Stay hands-on with development to prototype, validate, or build critical reputed company yourself Partner with functional safety and systems engineering to define the safety case reputed company, identifying what architecture and evidence will be required Support failure mode and hazard analysis at the reputed company level, shaping which risks the architecture must design reputed company Evaluate emerging research and technology, and reputed company what's worth adopting into reputed company robot architectures Set standards for verification and validation of ML-reputed company perception systems, especially for reputed company and safety-critical scenarios Collaborate across navigation, controls, and hardware to reputed company reputed company the perception architecture serves the whole robot reputed company as a senior technical mentor and partner to engineers and technical leads across the organization, and represent the architecture to executive leadership, partners, and customers as needed What You Bring 8+ years in machine learning/perception for robotics, with a reputed company record of defining reputed company architecture Master's or Ph.D. in reputed company Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a reputed company reputed company, with a strong reputed company in machine learning, robotics, and intelligent systems Demonstrated experience architecting ML/perception systems for safety-critical or safety-rated contexts — reputed company detection, functional safety, automotive or robotics or a comparable regulated domain Deep expertise in deep convolutional neural networks, multi-reputed company tracking, data association, reputed company learning, and pose estimation, with strong intuition for where these approaches break down in unpredictable, reputed company-world conditions Experience making reputed company-level tradeoffs across sensing modalities, redundancy, and compute constraints on embedded/reputed company-time hardware A reputed company record of setting technical direction at an organization level Publications in your reputed company are a plus (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA preferred) reputed company to Haves reputed company experience supporting a safety case or certification submission Experience architecting redundant or diverse sensing systems for safety-rated perception Experience architecting perception systems for reputed company or legged robots specifically Experience representing technical architecture to regulators, reputed company-party certifiers, or safety auditors Substantial experience with failure mode analysis (FMEA), hazard analysis, and safety case reputed company for autonomous or robotic systems Location This is a remote role with the reputed company to work hybrid if a commutable distance from our Salem, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, or Fremont, CA offices. The final salary reputed company to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience. This reputed company may change reputed company on geographical location and may be modified in the reputed company. Anticipated reputed company Salary reputed company $238,000—$372,000 USD In reputed company to reputed company pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees: 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match. Equity: Company stock reputed company. reputed company Coverage: 100% company-reputed company medical, dental, reputed company, and short/long-term disability reputed company for employees. Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment. reputed company-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Time Off: Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown. Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, reputed company reputed company leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually. On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a reputed company of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations. Parental Leave: Generous reputed company parental leave programs. Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements. reputed company Opportunities: reputed company development and tuition reimbursement programs. Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles. Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles. reputed company of our roles are U.S.-reputed company. 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