
7th Unit is building a wheeled upper-body humanoid robot for industrial deployment in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This is a founding role, you own the perception architecture from day one.
What you'll do
- Build and own the full perception stack for v1 — object detection, depth estimation, workspace understanding
- Integrate perception with manipulation and motion planning systems
- Deploy and optimize perception pipelines on edge hardware (Jetson Orin or equivalent)
- Work directly on the physical robot — debugging real hardware, not simulations
- Develop the data pipeline for continuous improvement of perception performance
What we need
- 3+ years building perception systems for real robotic platforms — not research only
- Strong foundation in computer vision, 3D data processing, and sensor fusion
- Proficiency in Python and C++, hands-on experience with ROS2
- Experience deploying perception on edge compute hardware
- You have debugged a perception system on a physical robot under real operating conditions
Structure
- Position starts Q3 2026
- Equity negotiated directly, founding engineer package
- Remote during pre-build phase. In-person required from prototype assembly onward

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