Perception / Computer Vision Software Engineer

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid robot, Figure 02, is designed for commercial tasks and the home. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

Figure’s vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. Our AI team is looking for Perception Engineers to empower Figure humanoid robots to perform highly dynamic operations in demanding real-world environments.

Responsibilities:

Develop novel computer vision formulations, models, and algorithms for a wide variety of tasks.Own the full development life cycle from data preparation to model deployment.

• Perform training of multi-task deep neural networks.

Design and build data and evaluation pipelines.

• Engineer and ship high quality, reliable software that will be deployed to the real world.

• Collaborate with other Figure team members to develop and continuously improve the full autonomy stack.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in production-level software & ML engineering and best practices.
• “White-box” understanding of deep learning: model details, loss formulations, and training algorithms.
• Strong mathematical fundamentals in probability, optimization, and linear algebra.
• Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas: 3D reconstruction, depth estimation, neural rendering, object detection, tracking & state estimation, instance and semantic segmentation.
• Comfortable with fundamental geometric concepts in computer vision, such as perspective transformation, pinhole camera model, and epipolar geometry.
• Extensive experience with one of the major deep learning frameworks, preferably PyTorch.

• Capable of quickly writing massive amounts of high quality, well-tested, perception software.
• Thrive in a high pace environment, where solutions are often unclear and require exploration.
• Passionate about building humanoid robots.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with CUDA and GPU programming.
• Experience with scalable data engineering toolchains such as Spark,Ray, SQL.
• Experience in neural network deployment toolchain and techniques, such as TensorRT and model quantization.
• Publication record of developing and deploying perception solutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $220,000 - $300,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.