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Senior AI Engineer — Spatial Intelligence, Segmentation & 3D

Senior AI Engineer — Spatial Intelligence, Segmentation & 3D

Madeira or Lisbon

ABOUT US

We’re a robotics startup building an agnostic orchestration platform that allows companies to manage, monitor, and control multiple robots and robotic systems from a single interface. We’re also developing custom Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that enable natural-language reasoning and autonomy across diverse robot types and industries. Our mission is to make robotics more accessible, intelligent, and scalable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defense and sports facility management. Think of it as an operating system for any robot, with an expanding library of intelligent capabilities. We are self-funded and currently building the v1 platform with our first pilot partners in the energy, hospitality and sports sectors.

 

ROLE OVERVIEW

Focus on the spatial perception layer of the platform — the models that give robots a geometric understanding of the world across all robot types and sectors. You build spatial models, segmentation systems and 3D representations that connect scene understanding directly to manipulation planning and navigation.

 

TECH STACK

  • PyTorch
  • SAM / SegFormer
  • NeRF / 3DGS
  • Open3D / PCL

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Build spatial and 3D perception models: reconstruction, depth estimation and scene understanding for real robot environments across sectors
  • Develop and adapt segmentation models (SAM and successors) for robot perception under real-world conditions
  • Build 3D representations — point clouds, NeRF/Gaussian splatting, occupancy — connected to manipulation and navigation
  • Connect spatial understanding outputs to manipulation planning and mobile navigation stack
  • Own evaluation and benchmarking of spatial perception on real robots across deployment verticals

 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • 5+ years ML/AI or computer vision with depth in spatial models, segmentation or 3D deep learning
  • Strong 3D geometry foundations: projection models, camera calibration and coordinate transforms
  • Experience with SAM-family models and 3D representations — trade-offs and failure modes, not just API usage
  • Strong PyTorch; comfortable with both research-quality and production-quality model code
  • Experience integrating perception outputs into downstream robot tasks
Nice to have
  • NeRF / 3DGS implementation experience beyond library wrappers
  • Depth sensor calibration and integration (RealSense, Orbbec, Livox)

WHY JOIN US

  • This is a rare opportunity to help design and build the foundational technology for a robotics platform from the ground up
  • Competitive salary
  • Relocation support and housing assistance for Madeira-based roles; CINM free-zone benefits
  • Small, senior, hands-on team — everyone owns a meaningful slice of the product from day one