Senior World Sensing Engineer

Lightspeed·Northbrook, IL·Posted 29 October 2026

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ABOUT LIGHTSPEED LightSpeed Build Technologies is revolutionizing the construction industry through AI-powered robotics. Our flagship systems—BRUTE for automated wall panel manufacturing and DEX for on-site collaborative construction—are addressing the global housing crisis by delivering unprecedented speed, precision, and affordability in homebuilding. POSITION OVERVIEW As Senior World Sensing Engineer, you will own how LightSpeed's robots sense and understand the world. You will architect the sensor array on every robot, from cameras and lidar to force-torque and process sensors, and the pipeline that turns those signals into one trusted world model: where everything really is, what state it is in, and how sure we are. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON SENSOR ARRAY AND PIPELINE - Define the sensor suite for every robot family across factory cells, mobile DEX and roof configurations, and upgrade it when a trade needs a signal we don't yet sense: - Vision: wrist RGB-D and stereo for close-range manipulation, cell and head cameras for scene coverage, global-shutter cameras for fast motion - Lidar: 3D lidar for mapping, localization and site safety on mobile robots…

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