Senior Perception Engineer - Spatial Understanding & Navigation
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Humanoid is the first AI and robotics company in the UK, creating the world’s most advanced, reliable, commercially scalable, and safe humanoid robots. Our first humanoid robot HMND 01 is a next-gen labour automation unit, providing highly efficient services across various use cases, starting with industrial applications.
We are looking for the Senior Perception Engineer - Spatial Understanding & Navigation to join our team based in London, UK.
What You'll Do
- Develop next-generation spatial understanding systems for robot locomotion and manipulation, integrating perception and high-level reasoning.
- Work on open-ended navigation powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models — enabling robots to understand context, predict intent, and act in complex, dynamic environments.
- Design and scale auto-labeling and large-scale data pipelines to train and evaluate multimodal models for navigation and interaction.
- Develop and implement scene understanding and 3D reconstruction methods that give robots persistent spatial memory and geometric awareness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional research and engineering teams to bring large vision-language models into real-world robotic systems.
What We're Looking For
- Deep experience in machine learning for vision or embodied AI, ideally with large models (VLMs, VLAs, transformers, diffusion, or multi-modal architectures).
- Strong background in scene understanding, spatial reasoning, or 3D reconstruction from visual data.
- Proficiency in PyTorch and hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and deploying large-scale ML systems.
- Strong experimental and research skills — capable of taking projects from concept to model training, evaluation, and robot integration.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, research-driven environment with evolving models, data, and tools.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary plus participation in our Employee Stock Option Plan
- Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws
- Travel opportunities to our Vancouver and Boston offices
- Private Health Insurance
- Office perks: free hot breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and regular team events