Job Description
PERCEPTION ENGINEER – MULTI-ROBOT AUTONOMY
Location: Cambridge, UK. Hybrid with regular on-site work.
Salary: £80,000 – £100,000 plus equity.
Overview
An early-stage autonomy company is hiring a Founding Perception Engineer to build the perception layer for a multi-robot autonomy platform.
The system enables robotic teams to understand, reason about, and operate within complex environments, including degraded sensing and communications.
This is a founding-level role with ownership of perception architecture, from raw sensor inputs through to structured world models used for decision-making.
The work focuses on robustness, interpretability, and real-world deployment rather than isolated research outputs.
Role Responsibilities
You own the end-to-end perception stack used across a heterogeneous fleet of robots.
Key responsibilities include:
• Design and implementation of perception pipelines that convert raw sensor data into structured world representations.
• Multi-sensor fusion across cameras, LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU.
• Probabilistic reasoning under uncertainty and partial observability.
• Maintaining spatial and temporal consistency across distributed robotic agents.
• Integration of perc...