Halodi Robotics

AI Researcher - Perception

Halodi Robotics$200K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience or an advanced degree with hands-on experience.
  • Proven track record of shipping perception systems on real-world hardware.
  • Demonstrated ability to train, evaluate, and deploy deep learning models in PyTorch.
  • Deep experience with geometric computer vision and camera-based kinematic calibration.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern C++ with testing and code review practices.

Responsibilities

  • Own the perception system from prototype to fleet-wide deployment.
  • Develop vision systems that measure the robot's geometry and reconstruct terrain.
  • Create human and object pose estimation models for data labeling and motion generation.
  • Ensure accurate depth and scene reconstruction for locomotion and manipulation.
  • Drive time synchronization and sensor fusion for consistent data output.
  • Establish datasets and metrics to evaluate perception changes on robot behavior.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
  • 401(k) plan with company match features.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
  • Commuter benefits including transit and parking.
  • Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for various support services.
  • Onsite snacks and catered lunches.
Full Job Description
Your Charter

Own perception for NEO from first prototype to fleet-wide deployment. You will build the vision systems that measure the robot's own geometry, recover human and object pose, and reconstruct the terrain and scenes NEO has to walk through and work in. How precisely NEO places a hand or plans a step is bounded by the perception you deliver, and you will measure your impact on deployed robots rather than on benchmarks.

Key Outcomes
  • Kinematic Calibration: Recover each robot's true geometry from camera data so controls and learned policies act on an accurate model of the body they drive.
  • 3D Scene Understanding: Deliver depth and scene reconstruction accurate enough to drive terrain-aware locomotion and contact-rich manipulation.
  • Pose Estimation: Ship human & object pose estimation models that can be used for large scale data labelling efforts and human/robot motion generation models.
  • Sensor Fusion: Drive time synchronization and fusion across cameras and inertial sensors so every downstream consumer gets spatially and temporally consistent data.
  • Calibration at Scale: Own intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration - automated on the production line, monitored for drift across the fleet, and recoverable through field tools.
  • Evaluation: Establish the datasets and metrics that show whether a perception change improved robot behavior, not just an offline score.


Key Competencies
  • Geometric Vision: Fluent in camera models, multi-view geometry, and non-linear optimization; reaches for classical or learned methods based on the problem.
  • Production ML: Trains and ships modern vision models, including transformer backbones, generative approaches, and learned depth, and makes them fast and predictable on embedded compute.
  • Hardware Grounding: Treats sensor noise, timing, and calibration drift as first-class problems, and traces how each propagates into a control loop or policy rollout.
  • Prototype to Production: Stands up a new capability from a paper and a test rig, then makes it repeatable across a fleet and monitored in the field.
  • Technical Direction: Sets the approach for a problem area, defends tradeoffs across sensing, models, and compute budget, and stays hands-on.


Minimum Requirements
  • Proven track record of shipping perception systems that run on physical hardware in the real world - robotics experience welcome but not required
  • Demonstrated ability to train, evaluate, and deploy deep learning models for detection, depth, or pose estimation in PyTorch
  • Deep experience with geometric computer vision, camera-based kinematic calibration (hand-eye / foot-eye calibration), and camera calibration including intrinsics & extrinsics
  • Experience owning a capability end to end, from problem definition through deployment and iteration on real failures
  • Strong Python and modern C++ in large shared codebases, with solid testing and code review practices
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience, or an advanced degree plus equivalent hands-on experience


Preferred Skills
  • Experience with visual-inertial odometry or SLAM, including multi-sensor time synchronization and fusion
  • Familiarity with robot kinematics and frame transforms, and how calibration error shows up in manipulation and locomotion
  • Experience building and adapting segmentation and classification models, including fine-tuning open-vocabulary or foundation backbones for a specific domain
  • Experience reconstructing scenes and terrain from video using differentiable rendering, neural rendering, or Gaussian splatting
  • Exposure to automating calibration and validation in manufacturing, or to building field diagnostic tools for deployed hardware
  • Familiarity with sensing beyond RGB such as radar, thermal, or near-infrared


Compensation
  • Salary Range: $200,000 - $300,000 + Equity


Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
  • 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
  • Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
  • Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
  • Onsite snacks and catered lunches


About Halodi Robotics

Halodi Robotics is a Norwegian robotics company that specializes in the development of humanoid robots. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Halodi Robotics is focused on creating robots that can perform a wide range of tasks, from industrial applications to personal assistance. The company's flagship product is the Halodi Robotics Eve, a humanoid robot that is designed to be a personal assistant. The Eve is capable of performing a wide range of tasks, including cleaning, cooking, and even playing games with its owners. In addition to the Eve, the company is also developing a range of other robots for industrial and commercial applications.
Learn more about Halodi Robotics
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50 employees
Industry
Founded
2018

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