Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Trace

Senior Computer Vision Engineer developing and improving spatial perception for data pipeline. Working with sensor data to enhance robotics and AI capabilities.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own camera and multi-sensor calibration across our capture rigs, including intrinsics, extrinsics, and time synchronization
Build, evaluate, and improve SLAM, VIO, and mapping pipelines that recover aligned 6-DoF trajectories from real-world captures
Train and/or fine-tune models for pose estimation and semantic understanding of multi-modal data
Diagnose and fix the failures that actually show up in the field – drift, calibration drift, sensor misalignment, degraded tracking, weak reconstructions, noisy data
Define the ground-truth and benchmarking methodology we use to know whether the spatial layer is actually getting better
Decide where we need custom perception work versus where off-the-shelf components are good enough
Work closely with the rest of engineering and with Trace Labs (our applied research arm) to feed reliable spatial outputs into downstream annotation, evaluation, and product workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience in at least one of: SLAM, visual odometry, VIO, mapping, or localization
Hands-on work with camera calibration, sensor fusion, multi-sensor alignment, or state estimation
A track record of shipping perception systems on real hardware, in real-world environments – robotics, autonomy, AR/VR, drones, or other embodied / sensor-heavy systems
Comfort reasoning across software, sensors, calibration, and data quality, not just models in isolation
Pragmatism about when to use off-the-shelf components, when to build custom, and when to push a problem back to the sensor or capture side
High ownership, good judgment, and productive, thoughtful communication
Emotional maturity and a collaborative, grounded working style

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

SLAMvisual odometryVIOmappinglocalizationcamera calibrationsensor fusionmulti-sensor alignmentstate estimationpose estimation

Soft Skills

high ownershipgood judgmentproductive communicationthoughtful communicationemotional maturitycollaborative working style