Sr. AI Perception Engineer

About Anyware

Anyware Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulator robots for industrial applications. Our robots are trusted by customers across logistics, retail, and manufacturing, supporting applications such as truck unloading, mobile palletizing, and machine tending.

The Role

The robots run on AnywareOS , our industrial physical intelligence system. Its architecture is modular and designed to generalize across applications without reprogramming. We are seeking a Sr. AI Perception Engineer to advance Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack for warehouse automation robots, with a focus on object localization, pose estimation, scene reconstruction, and deployment on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.

This role is for an engineer who builds AI perception that works on real sensor data and physical systems — not only on benchmarks — and who wants to take it through production and real-world operation. You will own perception capabilities end to end within your area — problem definition, model and pipeline development, deployment on robot hardware, monitoring, failure analysis, and production improvement — and make pragmatic tradeoffs across accuracy, reliability, latency, compute, data, maintainability, engineering effort, and delivery timelines.

This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role. You will own the design decisions in your area, contribute to architecture and design reviews, and work closely with the Perception Team Lead and Staff engineers who set technical direction across the perception stack.

What you'll do

• Build 3D AI perception on physical systems, hands-on — develop robust object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction models and pipelines using RGB-D and other sensing modalities, running on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.
• Own perception capabilities end to end — from problem definition and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, failure analysis, and production improvement within Anyware's existing perception stack.
• Improve perception reliability on physical robots — diagnose and fix failures caused by difficult scenes, changing lighting, sensor noise, and gaps between training data and customer environments.
• Strengthen production readiness — better data, evaluation, regression testing, release criteria, observability, and systematic root-cause analysis of field failures.
• Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs across the robot system — balance accuracy, robustness, latency, compute cost, data availability, maintainability, and delivery timelines while integrating perception reliably with planning, manipulation, controls, and system software.

Required Skills

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience developing AI perception systems for physical robots or comparable real-world machines.
• Hands-on proficiency building AI perception models (PyTorch or similar) and real-time perception pipelines in Python and C++.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying and operating AI perception in production on physical robots — running models under latency and compute constraints on robot hardware and owning reliability in the field.
• Strong foundation in 3D geometry, camera models and calibration, RGB-D or point-cloud processing, and 3D object localization, segmentation, or pose estimation.
• Experience with ROS or ROS2 for real-time robotic perception pipelines, including sensor-data processing and model integration.
• Experience deploying robotic perception systems in warehouse, logistics, or other industrial environments.

Why Anyware

• An A+ Team: Anyware is built by top talents. Collectively, our team has won six Best Paper Awards and Finalists, including the ICRA 2025 Best Paper Award and ICRA 2024 Best Paper Award.
• An A+ Robot: Our robot, Pixmo, won the Best Innovation Award (top-1) at both ProMat 2025 and MODEX 2026 — the two largest logistics automation exhibitions in the world. Pixmo also won the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award.
• Real Impact: Your perception work does not stop at a demo. It ships into real customer sites, directly affects robot reliability and throughput, and must perform under real-world variation.
• Fast Growth: You will have strong ownership and real responsibility in a growing robotics company.
• Generous Equity: We offer generous equity in addition to salary and benefits.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is 150K-240K USD/year, depending on experience and qualifications.

Additional compensation may include equity, benefits, or other incentives, where applicable.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid sick leave
• 401(k) plan support
• Daily meal credit

Equal Opportunity Statement

Anyware is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.