We are looking for a Senior Robotics Engineer with 5-10 years of experience in perception to drive outcomes across SLAM, sensor fusion, and calibration that directly power the expansion of our business. You'll join a team of mission-driven robotics PhDs from Penn, Caltech, and CMU building physical AI for field workers at energy utilities. Our technology is an ironman suit for engineers and crews—same boots on the ground, now operating at 10x productivity. You'll work on some of the hardest problems in ground-based LiDAR perception, improving quality and consistency across diverse operating conditions while enabling scalability for three of the five largest utilities in the US.
What will you be doing?
Leading SLAM development, incorporating new sensor evolutions and improving performance in GPS-degraded environments
Fusing multi-user, multi-session point cloud maps and automating alignment of LiDAR and imagery data to produce consistent large-scale scenes
Advancing extrinsic and intrinsic sensor calibration, including eliminating the need for extrinsic measurements on vehicle sensors in the field
Building systems to catch and correct data quality issues at their source, powering scalability and reliability
Improving the quality and consistency of perception outputs across an increasing breadth of operating conditions
Treeswift is revolutionizing decision-making for critical energy infrastructure in the face of rising threats like severe storms and wildfires. In the U.S. alone, hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines and millions of miles of distribution lines need to be carefully monitored and maintained to reduce hazards. The largest of these hazards is interaction with vegetation that can cause outages or fires. With the rapid growth of renewable energy this infrastructure footprint is expected to more than double in the coming years creating more assets to defend than ever before.
Treeswift’s mission is to deliver scalable technology to manage large-scale distributed infrastructure, starting with managing the risks posed by vegetation to power lines and extending to asset management, construction planning, and disaster recovery. We deliver transformative impact to our customers by innovating across the technical stack. LiDAR and imagery data is collected by sensor packs mounted on backpacks and vehicles that seamlessly integrate into customer operations. We then deploy AI to transform raw data into actionable analytics delivered to decision-makers in our software platform. After just a year and a half since our first utility pilot we are working with three of the five largest utilities in the United States and rapidly expanding our footprint across new customers and use cases.
To tackle this challenge we are bringing together a team of mission-driven experts from with deep industry experience in robotics, enterprise software development and field work. We bring together former Palantir leadership, PhDs from the best robotics programs, alumni of Skydio, wildfire firefighters and forest service alumni. We hope you’ll join us on this journey to revolutionize field work, starting with the energy sector.
Salary
$160,000 - $210,000
Location
New York, United States
Experience
5+ years
Total raised
$16.8M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
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