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Bedrock Robotics · 1 month ago

Perception Software or Machine Learning Engineer

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level

Bedrock Robotics is focused on bringing autonomy to the construction industry, leveraging expertise from the autonomous vehicle sector. The Machine Learning Engineer for Perception will design and optimize 3D perception systems, utilizing both computer vision and LIDAR technologies to enhance object detection and semantic segmentation in real-world applications.

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Responsibilities

Design Early Fusion Architectures: Develop and train state-of-the-art models (e.g., BEV-based transformers) that fuse raw Lidar and Camera data to solve for object detection and semantic segmentation
Tackle "Messy" Physics: Build perception systems robust enough to handle dynamic occlusion (seeing the robot’s own arm/bucket), particulates (dust, snow, rain), and high-vibration conditions
Deploy to the Edge: Optimize models for inference on embedded hardware. You will debug system-level issues, such as sensor calibration drift and latency bottlenecks
Collaborating with other teams to create state-of-the-art representations for downstream use cases

Qualification

3D perception systemsDeep learningPyTorchEarly Fusion ArchitecturesPythonC++Rust3D GeometryStatistical propertiesData pipelinesSensor calibrationOccupancy gridsTop-Tier Research

Required

Experience taking deep learning models from research to real-world production using PyTorch
Deep understanding of SE(3) transformations, homogeneous coordinates, and intrinsic/extrinsic sensor calibration
Practical experience with architectures that fuse modalities at the feature level (e.g., BEVFusion, TransFuser, PointPainting)
SOTA Object Detection experience with modern transformer-based architectures (DETR, PETR, etc…) including similar temporal models (PETRv2, StreamPETR, …)
Expert in Python, but also comfortable reading and writing systems code in C++ or Rust
Understanding of memory management and real-time constraints
Understanding that in robotics, better data alignment often beats a bigger model
Willingness to dig into the data infrastructure to ensure ground truth quality

Preferred

Experience working with occupancy grids, NeRFs, or voxel-based representations for terrain mapping
Published work in conferences such as ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, CoRL, or RSS

Company

Bedrock Robotics

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Bedrock Robotics enables the construction sector to grow at the rate that modern civilization requires.
dateFounded in 2024
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://bedrockrobotics.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$80M
Key Investors
8VCEclipse Ventures
2025-07-16Series A· $80M
2025-07-16Seed

Leadership Team

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Boris Sofman
Co-Founder & CEO
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Ajay Gummalla
Co-Founder and Vice President
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