Perception Engineer

Lightspeed·Northbrook, IL·Posted 2 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 a Perception Engineer, you will own how LightSpeed's robots see. You will design, calibrate, and deploy the multi-camera systems on our robot cells and end-of-arm tooling, and build the perception that guides manipulation in real time. Your camera streams also feed our teleoperation and robot learning pipelines, so the quality of what you build directly shapes how well our robots learn. This role sits at the intersection of sensor hardware, 3D vision, and deep learning, all deployed on physical robots where reliability matters. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON CAMERA & SENSOR SYSTEMS - Select, specify, and deploy multi-camera systems (RGB, stereo, depth) for robot cells, including wrist- and tool-mounted cameras on end-of-arm tooling and dexterous hands - Own intrinsic, extrinsic, and hand-eye calibration, and…

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