Perception Engineer - Apprentice

About the role

As a Perception Engineering Intern / Apprentice at Origin (Formerly 10xConstruction), you will help our autonomous drywall-finishing robots "see" the job-site. You'll design and deploy perception pipelines—camera + LiDAR fusion, deep-learning vision models, and point-cloud geometry—to give the robot the awareness it needs.

What you'll do

• Build ROS 2 nodes for 3-D point-cloud ingestion, filtering, voxelisation and wall-plane extraction (PCL / Open3D)
• Train and integrate CNN / Transformer models for surface-defect detection and semantic segmentation
• Implement RANSAC-based pose, plane and key-point estimation; refine with ICP or Kalman/EKF loops
• Fuse LiDAR, depth camera, IMU and wheel odometry data for robust SLAM and obstacle avoidance
• Optimize and benchmark models on Jetson-class edge devices with TensorRT / ONNX Runtime

What you need

• 0–1 years in software engineering
• Python
• Git
• Deep learning
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• MLOps
• Any graduate