About the role
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Figure’s vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. Our AI team is looking for Localization and Mapping Engineers to empower Figure humanoid robots to perform highly dynamic operations in demanding real-world environments. Responsibilities: Architect and implement real-time localization, ego-motion tracking, and state estimation systems by fusing multi-modal sensor data (cameras, IMUs, encoders, magnetic sensors). Build and maintain scalable, offline pose-tracking pipelines to process large-scale training data from diverse sources. Develop and optimize multi-sensor calibration systems for humanoid robotics and data collection platforms. Partner with cross-functional teams to build comprehensive, data-driven evaluation and testing frameworks. Design, engineer, and deploy high-quality, reliable software solutions for real-world robotics applications. Requirements: Deep technical expertise in solving complex estimation and nonlinear optimization problems. Strong command of 3D geometry, visual-inertial SLAM, and computer vision techniques, including feature matching/tracking, and Structure from Motion (SfM). Experience writing performant C++ software. Hands-on exper…