Gusto

Staff AI Perception Engineer

Gusto$180K — $280K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in AI perception systems development and deployment.
  • Senior-level ownership of architecture and design decisions with emphasis on reliability and maintainability.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including mentoring and guiding technical direction.

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership to perception projects and mentor engineering teams.
  • Define and own the perception architecture and technology roadmap for production AI systems.
  • Develop and implement robust 3D AI perception pipelines for warehouse robots.
  • Make pragmatic engineering trade-offs for performance and reliability across robot systems.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees and families.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.
  • Paid sick leave to support staff wellbeing.
  • 401(k) plan with support for future planning.
  • Daily meal credits provided to employees.
Full Job Description
Description

The Role

The robots run on AnywareOS, our industrial physical intelligence system. Its architecture is modular and designed to generalize across applications without reprogramming. We are seeking a Staff AI Perception Engineer to advance Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack for warehouse automation robots, with a focus on object localization, pose estimation, scene reconstruction, and deployment on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.

This role is for an engineer who has taken AI perception from idea or prototype through production and real-world operation. You will make pragmatic tradeoffs across research potential, accuracy, reliability, latency, compute, data, maintainability, engineering effort, and delivery timelines, while providing senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, incident investigations, and mentoring.

This is a hands-on Staff individual-contributor role with broad technical leadership responsibility. You will help shape the perception roadmap, set technical direction across projects, mentor engineers, and raise the team's technical capability through architecture decisions, design reviews, and hands-on implementation.

What you'll do
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership - set technical direction across perception projects, lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, and help teams resolve difficult technical problems while remaining deeply involved in implementation and production debugging.
  • Define the perception architecture and technology roadmap - own senior-level architecture and design decisions for Anyware's production 3D AI perception stack, drive design reviews, and align the roadmap with product, customer, and cross-team release commitments.
  • Build and ship 3D AI perception on deployed robots, hands-on - develop robust object localization, pose estimation, and scene reconstruction pipelines using RGB-D and other sensing modalities, running on robot compute within application cycle-time constraints.
  • Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs across the robot system - balance accuracy, robustness, latency, compute cost, data availability, maintainability, and delivery timelines while integrating perception reliably with planning, manipulation, controls, and system software.


Required Skills
  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of professional experience developing and deploying AI perception systems, with senior-level ownership of architecture and design decisions, balancing technical ambition with reliability, resources, maintainability, and delivery timelines.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership - setting technical direction, owning architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and leading design reviews or cross-functional technical execution. Direct people-management experience is not required.


Nice to have
  • Experience managing, hiring, or growing a small technical team.
  • Strong foundation in 3D geometry, camera models and calibration, RGB-D or point-cloud processing, and 3D object localization, segmentation, or pose estimation.
  • Experience deploying robotic perception systems in warehouse, logistics, or other industrial environments.


Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is 180K-280K USD/year, depending on experience and qualifications.

Additional compensation may include equity, benefits, or other incentives, where applicable.

Benefits & Perks
  • Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Paid sick leave
  • 401(k) plan support
  • Daily meal credit


How to Apply

Please submit your resume and any relevant materials through the Anyware Career platform. We look forward to learning more about your experience and interest in joining our team.

Salary

$180,000 - $280,000 per year

About Gusto

Gusto is a cloud-based human resources software platform that provides payroll, benefits, and HR management services to small businesses. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Gusto's platform automates many of the administrative tasks associated with HR, such as payroll processing, tax filings, and benefits administration. The company also offers a range of HR services, including compliance support, employee onboarding, and time tracking. Gusto is committed to helping small businesses succeed by providing them with the tools and resources they need to manage their HR operations more efficiently.
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1,000 employees
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Founded
2012

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