Founding Robotics Perception Engineer

Broaden is recruiting for an unnamed client building physical AI data products for robotics and embodied-AI teams. The Founding Robotics Perception Engineer will develop hand-tracking and motion-reconstruction pipelines, integrate capture devices and sensors, and establish accuracy benchmarks and data-quality checks.

Responsibilities:

• Build, refine, and maintain production pipelines for 3D hand tracking from egocentric video and gripper trajectory reconstruction from UMI recordings
• Integrate camera streams, IMUs, and device SDKs into the collection software, ensuring flawless handling of spatial calibration, coordinate frames, timestamps, and units
• Develop diagnostic tools to detect occluded hands, lost tracks, motion drift, coordinate discrepancies, dropped frames, and timestamp misalignments, applying automated quality flags for data review
• Compare motion estimates against physical reference standards, quantify error and coverage, and maintain automated regression tests to confirm that pipeline changes genuinely improve data accuracy
• Test and benchmark newly purchased cameras and capture hardware on representative tasks, evaluating baseline signal quality and reliability prior to wider operational deployment