Helix AI Engineer, Perception

From the posting

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Responsibilities:

Develop perception systems including onboard computer vision, localization, visuomotor policies, and offline data annotation.

Own the end-to-end product life cycle from initial ideation to deployment.

Deliver high-quality, reliable software solutions for real-world application.

Collaborate cross-functionally to evolve and optimize our autonomy stack.

Requirements:

Extensive experience in production-level software and ML engineering best practices.

Strong mathematical foundation in probability, optimization, and linear algebra.

Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas: 3D Vision, VIO / SLAM, Vision-Language Model (VLM), Diffusion Models.

Proficiency with geometric computer vision concepts, including perspective transformation, the pinhole camera model, and epipolar geometry.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment that demands exploration and creative problem-solving.

Passion for advancing humanoid robotics.

Bonus Qualifications:

Experience with CUDA programming and real-time systems performance optimization.

Familiarity with scalable data engineering toolchains like Spark and Ray. …

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