Senior Robotics Perception Engineer

Location: Central London (in person, 5 days/week) + travel to industry partners (US, UK, Europe)
Competitive salary: GBP 100-150K + equity

At Maihem, our mission is to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, with intelligent robots to invent and build anything. We are witnessing the start of a new industrial revolution—an era of rapid innovation and advanced manufacturing powered by AI and robotics. We aim to lead this shift by putting these tools into the hands of every manufacturer, ensuring the power to invent and build at scale isn’t a privilege of the few.

But this era of abundance depends on solving a systemic labor crisis. For any economy to advance its industry and secure its supply chains, it must address the work that no longer attracts a human workforce. We are building AI to handle the dull, dirty, and dangerous. By offloading the hazardous and the mundane to intelligent machines, we empower manufacturers to compete globally while driving prosperity locally.

In doing so, we enable the creation of new, purposeful jobs—ensuring that the future of innovation remains human‑centric, boundless, and accessible to all.

• Backed by Y Combinator and founders of Pay Pal, Affrim, Slack: with a $6M seed round. Scout investments by Sequoia, a16z, Accel, and Kleiner Perkins.
• Founding team of AI PhDs and previous startup CTOs: everyone has a founder/CTO background.
• Building with real industry partners from the start: focused on shipping robotic solutions for real‑world deployment in record time.

• Max Ahrens (Founder & CEO): ML PhD + Postdoc (Oxford University); led AI research projects with the Alan Turing Institute and UK Ministry of Defence; ex‑McKinsey.
• Simon White (Founding Software Engineer): former YC startup founder/CTO; ex‑defence systems engineer.
• Joel Kang (Founding Product Engineer): former AI startup founder/CTO; ex‑Linked In; product‑minded engineer focused on shipping end‑to‑end systems.

• Nerdy and Intellectually Athletic:
  We dive deep into first principles and embrace heterodox thinking to solve the hardest technical problems.
• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held:
  We debate with data and logic, then commit fully.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Direct feedback, low ego, high trust, high growth.
• Outcome Obsession:
  Results over activity. You own your path and deliver high‑impact results.
• Innovation Through Diversity of Thought:
  We seek diverse perspectives and backgrounds to build innovative, world‑class solutions.

• As Maihem's Senior Robotic Perception Engineer, you will architect the vision and metrology foundations that make adaptable robotics possible. You'll design, build, and integrate the perception stack into our downstream planning, learning, and control systems.
• You'll transform raw sensor data into sub‑millimeter accurate geometry for collision‑free robot planning and navigation. You'll apply your expertise in 3D computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning to plan, build, and deploy our perception stack.
• This is a hands‑on role: you'll design the sensing setup, implement the core 3D pipeline, and ensure it's robust enough for production deployment with our industry partners.

• Sensor evaluation and integration:
  Experiment with different hardware setups, and assess how their mounting requirements and constraints affect the quality of the data captured.
• Calibration and frame correctness: intrinsics/extrinsics, hand‑eye, frame conventions, repeatability tests; build tooling to validate, detect and correct drift.
• Image registration:
  Align multiple perceptual data sources (e.g. RGBD, point‑clouds, TSDFs, geometries) to a CAD model using appropriate registration and outlier handling techniques (feature extraction, RANSAC, ICP, robust kernels etc).
• Digital twin update + ML pipeline inputs:
  Ensure CV/perception data feeds accurately to digital win simulation and machine learning pipeline work streams.
• Field robustness: logging/replay, health checks, and failure mode detection for deployment in industry partner cells.

• 3+ years shipping real‑world CV/3D systems beyond prototypes (robotics, inspection, metrology).
• Hands‑on…