Helix AI Engineer, Perception

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. Our Helix team is looking for Perception Engineers to empower Figure humanoid robots to perform highly dynamic operations in demanding real-world environments.

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 c