Principal Robotics AI Engineer (Perception & Autonomy Systems), 2 Years Contract

AI.DA Strategic Technology Centre (STC)’s Next-gen Edge AI & Robotics (NEAR) Lab operates a heterogeneous fleet of legged robots, drones, mobile manipulators and other robot types for autonomous operations in unstructured, GPS-denied environments across different applications. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to own the perception layer across this fleet: real-time 3D scene understanding, multi-sensor fusion, and the systems engineering that makes perception work reliably across platforms with different sensor payloads and compute budgets.

This is an engineering-first role with active research participation. You ship real-time perception systems that survive field conditions across multiple platform types. You will work with academic collaborators to translate research into actual applications. The lab has strong academic partnerships forming in cooperative perception and semantic mapping; you will be the technical counterpart on our side of those collaborations.