Senior Perception Engineer - Spatial Intelligence (London)

Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That's why we've set out on a mission to build the world's most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We're bringing that mission to life with HMND 01 Alpha - our rapidly developed humanoid platform now running in real industrial pilots - and we're growing the team to take it even further.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Perception Engineer - Spatial Intelligence to join our Perception and Navigation team based in London. In this role you will lead the development of advanced spatial intelligence capabilities-spanning 3D scene understanding, multimodal learning, and vision-language-action models-that enable robots to navigate, reason, and act in complex real-world environments.

What You'll Do

• Architect the spatial intelligence layer that unifies 3D geometry with semantic scene understanding to ensure safe and efficient navigation and locomotion in complex environments

• Develop advanced 3D spatial reasoning capabilities that provide our robots with long-term persistent spatial memory and a deep contextual awareness of their surroundings.

• Own the entire perception lifecycle by training large-scale multimodal networks and deploying and integerating them for ultra-low latency performance on edge hardware

• Bridge the gap between conceptual research and physical reality by implementing state-of-the-art 3D representations that track and interpret the environment state

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bridge the gap between large-scale model training and reliable robot integration.

• Stay ahead of the field, rapidly evaluate new model architectures, benchmarks, and datasets to guide our embodied AI roadmap

What We're Looking For

• Exceptional software engineering skills with a proven track record of shipping complex ML systems into production.

• Strong background in 3D scene understanding and the design of efficient spatial data structures.

• Deep experience in machine learning for vision or embodied AI, ideally with large models (VLMs, transformers, or multi-modal architectures).

• Proficiency in PyTorch and hands on experience building, fine tuning, and deploying large-scale ML systems.

• High impact individual contributor capable of taking projects from conceptual research to high performance robot code.

• Comfortable working in a fast moving, research driven environment with evolving models, data, and tools.

What We Offer

• Meaningful time off to rest and recharge: 23 days of annual leave (accrued), separate sick leave, and paid bank holidays and company holidays.

• Fully funded private healthcare for UK employees, with broad provider access, virtual and in person care, and strong mental health and serious illness support.

• Pension scheme with a total 8% contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.

• Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in office.

• Collaboration with top tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.

• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.