Our Company
MISO develops technology that elevates human lives in the commercial kitchen.
We’re engineering production-ready robotic systems that tightly integrate perception, real-time decision making, and electromechanical controls to automate the most dangerous, least desirable tasks in food preparation. That means building software that understands the physical world as it actually behaves, and hardware that can execute precisely in the face of chaos. Success is measured in uptime, throughput, and trust from our customers, not demos.
Our flagship platform, Flippy, is already operating in high-volume restaurant kitchens across seven states. Zippy, our Kitchen Intelligence software centralizes all operational data in our broader ecosystem, expanding the role of AI-enabled autonomy in real-world operations. Backed by industry leaders, including Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), Miso combines the stability of a proven commercial product with the technical depth and ambition of a company passionately innovating to solve foundational problems in robotics and restaurant operations.
If you’re excited by hard constraints, real customers, and the challenge of making software and machines perform reliably where failure isn’t an option, you’ll find meaningful problems to work on here.
The Role
As a Sr. Perception Engineer, you will design, develop, and improve perception of the environment and objects for Miso Robotics Flippy automated kitchen. This includes the fusion of data from cameras, infrared, arm position, state machine context, door sensors, and other sensors. You have an aggressive start-up mindset because we are bringing years of R&D to high-quality releases at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect SW for reliability, scalability, and efficiency flow of data through the system.
- Develop robust monitoring solutions to continuously track and ensure system health
- Evolve and simplify state machines + scheduler that dictate robot behaviors and workflows
- Own the vision part of installation, updates, robustness, calibration, and performance
- Drive improved quality with every sprint and new release. Facilitate automated tests.
- Evaluate new 3rd-party sensors and algorithms
- Proactively align with other teams/components and the physical system
Qualifications
- BS Computer Vision (or similar)
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience; many releases of production quality deployments
- Programming in Python and C++
- ROS (Robot Operating System)
- Proficiency with Linux/Docker environments, and version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Sensor fusion (camera + lidar + IMU)
- Coordinate frames & transforms (TF)
- Vision inspection pipelines
- Image processing (filtering, edge detection, morphology)
- Object detection & classification, Object tracking (Kalman, SORT, DeepSORT)
- Pose estimation (PnP, ICP, visual odometry)
- Camera calibration (intrinsic/extrinsic)
- Machine Learning, CNN, PyTorch, Data set creation, labeling, & augmentation, VertexAI and/or AWS Sagemaker
- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to learn / adapt quickly
- Collaborative team player with a drive to take initiative and ownership
Preferred
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Experience accelerating CV applications on GPU using CUDA or NVIDIA Deepstream SDK
- Experience building MLOps pipelines for continuous training, testing, and deployment of Vision Models
- OpenCV, HALCON, Cognex VisionPro
- Experience training and integrating Vision Language Action Models on robotic applications
Compensation
$120,000-$165,000/yr + Benefits
The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base salary range for candidates residing in the Los Angeles Metro area and excludes additional earnings such as bonus and benefits. If your salary requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply.
At Miso Robotics, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where every team member is valued and respected. We believe that diversity in our team drives innovation and creativity, which is why we strive to create a welcoming environment for everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.
Top Skills
What We Do
Miso Robotics is building AI-powered automation for commercial kitchens, starting with Flippy, the industry's first fully autonomous fry station robot deployed at commercial scale. If you're an AI or robotics engineer who wants to see your work in action every single day, solving real problems for real people, this is where that happens. We're tackling one of the hardest robotics challenges: unstructured environments. Restaurant kitchens are chaotic, unpredictable, and unforgiving. Orders surge randomly, equipment varies by location, and there's zero tolerance for downtime. Our robots work alongside humans in 350-degree heat, handling multiple tasks simultaneously while adapting in real time. It's computer vision, motion planning, and AI decision-making at the edge, all day, every day. Our tech stack is cutting edge. We use NVIDIA AI for vision and inference, custom motion control algorithms, and machine learning models that continuously improve from real-world data across dozens of live deployments. The impact is immediate and measurable. When a restaurant operator tells us our robot "had their back" during a lunch rush, or a worker says Flippy is their "best friend," that's our mission in action. Beyond Flippy, our Innovation Lab in Pasadena develops next-generation kitchen automation. We're expanding into new stations, new tasks, and new capabilities. The kitchen of the future needs engineers who can build systems that actually work when the stakes are high and the environment is hostile. You'll work with a team that includes product leaders from Amazon and Ring, robotics engineers solving novel manipulation problems, and a CEO who gets that great technology means nothing if it breaks down during dinner rush. We obsess over real-world performance, not lab demos.
Why Work With Us
We're revolutionizing food service with AI robotics that solve real labor challenges. Join us to build cutting-edge technology that's already deployed in major chains, work with a mission-driven team backed by strong funding, and shape the future of an industry ripe for innovation.
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