Skild AI

Robotics

ResearchRobotics/ComputerVisionEngineer

$250–300k San Mateo, California, United States
The Brief

“Research Robotics/Computer Vision Engineer at Skild AI. Skills: Robotics, Computer Vision, 3D Reconstruction, Autonomous Navigation. Implement perception on robots. Enable safe exploration”

Industry & Context.

Robotics

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Master's degree in Computer Vision, Master's degree in Robotics, 1 year of experience in Machine Learning, 1 year of experience in Data Science, Reconstructing 3D scenes using monocular videos, Reconstructing 3D scenes using meshes, Reconstructing 3D scenes using pointclouds, Reconstructing 3D scenes using Neural Radiance Fields, Reconstructing 3D scenes using Gaussian, Reconstructing rigid and articulated hand-held objects, Inferring time-varying hand configurations, Inferring relative poses of hands, Using generative computer vision, Using diffusion models to guide reconstruction, Addressing occlusion in videos, Addressing limited viewpoint variations in videos, Optimizing attention-based models for perception, Using Neural Architectural Search (NAS), Cloud-based training in AWS, Cloud-based training in Google cloud, Cloud-based training in Vetex AI, Optimized data loading for cloud based distributed training, Optimized data loading for deep learning workloads, Optimized data loading with hardware-in-loop

What You'll Do.

Implement perception on robots

Enable safe exploration

Enable navigation in real world environments

Reconstruct scene in 3D

Estimate camera poses

Optimize SLAM systems

Develop software tools for localization

Localize robot using visual inputs

Build robust software for life-long mapping

Perform visual servoing

Research novel techniques for glare

Detect glare during robotic mapping

Cater to glare during robotic mapping

Detect glare during robotic navigation

Cater to glare during robotic navigation

Build infrastructure and pipeline

Collect data for streaming

Stream hand movements

Train robot manipulation tasks

Maintain navigation stack

Fix bugs in navigation stack

Add customer feature requests

Ensure successful deployments

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Locomotion team

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