Staff Perception Engineer – Robotics

Knightscope is a security technology company building the Nation’s First Autonomous Security Force.

The Company combines autonomous machines, advanced software, and human expertise to help protect people, property, and critical infrastructure.

Knightscope’s long-term mission is to make the United States of America the safest country in the world.

In this role, you will own the full perception stack for our autonomous security robot platform, from raw LiDAR, camera, and thermal sensor data through 3D object detection, scene understanding, and persistent entity tracking.

You will be a technical lead working across robotics, ML, and systems engineering to ship production-grade perception capabilities that power real-time threat detection, incident correlation, and evidence capture in the field .

Requirement: Full-time, on-site at Sunnyvale HQ (No relocation provided)

• Design, train, and deploy 3D perception models, object detection, segmentation, and multi-object tracking, from multi-modal sensor data (LiDAR, camera, thermal, radar) using state-of-the-art BEV and transformer-based architectures.