Proception Inc

Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle

Software Engineering - AI & Robotics Infrastructure

$100K - $200K0.10% - 1.00%Palo Alto, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Robotics
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
Skills
C++, Python
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Jack Xu
Jack Xu
Founder

About the role

“Join our platform team to build the data infrastructure that powers our robotic learning systems. You'll develop high-performance logging pipelines, build visualization tools for multimodal sensor data, and create systems that help our AI teams train better robotic policies.”

🎯Role Details

  • Design and implement high-throughput data logging systems for real-world robotic platforms
  • Build visualization and analysis tools for multimodal sensor streams (vision, tactile, force, proprioception)
  • Develop sensor calibration, time-synchronization, and validation pipelines
  • Create data management and tooling to support large-scale AI and robotics training workflows
  • Work with cloud infrastructure to enable scalable data storage, processing, and retrieval
  • Collaborate closely with robotics, perception, and learning teams to improve data quality and usability
  • Support both real-robot and simulation-based data collection pipelines

⚡Requirements

  • BS or MS (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field
  • Strong experience with Linux systems, shell scripting, and low-level system tools
  • Familiarity with performance profiling and debugging (e.g., perf, strace, gdb)
  • Experience building data pipelines, logging systems, or visualization tools
  • Understanding of sensor calibration, synchronization, and data storage formats
  • Proficiency in Rust (C/C++, Python are nice addition)
  • Familiarity with ROS / ROS2, bag files, and common robotics data formats
  • Experience with robotics simulators such as MuJoCo or Isaac Sim
  • Familiarity with URDF / MJCF / SDF and simulation-robot interfaces
  • Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) or SIL/HIL testing setups

Nice to Have

  • Experience with high-frequency or real-time data systems
  • Background in distributed systems or large-scale data processing
  • Interest in robotics learning, perception, or manipulation

Please also apply through our website directly https://www.proception.ai/careers

About the interview

Two technical phone interview followed by a technical presentation.

About Proception Inc

We work on the dexterity problem for humanoids

Proception Inc
Founded:2024
Batch:W25
Team Size:10
Status:
Active
Founders
Jay Li
Jay Li
Founder
Jack Xu
Jack Xu
Founder