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title: 'Calibration and Localization Engineer at Humble Robotics'
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# Calibration and Localization Engineer at Humble Robotics

- **Company:** Humble Robotics
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/humble-robotics/4b87e4bb-255c-4df6-89bb-0283f48b292c

## Job description

## About Humble Robotics

Working at Humble Robotics means taking on the biggest change in ground transportation in decades. We're building an autonomous, zero-emissions hauler that dramatically lowers the cost of freight with groundbreaking vision-based AI, designed for today's global logistics network. We're a fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers. We don't believe culture can be engineered – but when it falls into place, it's a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Progress has never felt so present.

Position Overview We're looking for an engineer to own the spatial foundations of our autonomy stack: how our sensors relate to each other and to the vehicle, and how that information is fused into a continuous, trustworthy estimate of where the vehicle is. The environments our trucks operate in, including port terminals, container yards, warehouses, and the corridors that connect them, all present unique challenges to both. This is a role for someone who thinks about sensor geometry and state estimation as facets of the same problem.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead the extrinsic calibration of our sensor suite and the localization algorithms that consume its outputs, ensuring both are robust, well-characterized, and evolve together
- Develop evaluation frameworks and metrics that let us measure calibration and localization quality honestly across fleet data
- Debug failures in real-world logs and translate findings into algorithmic improvements
- Collaborate with Autonomy, vehicle software, fleet operations, and data teams to tighten the loop between these foundational systems and their downstream consumers
- Contribute to the broader shape of how Humble approaches sensor geometry and state estimation as the team and fleet grow

## Minimum Qualifications

- BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent industry experience
- Strong foundation in the geometry, state estimation, and optimization methods: nonlinear optimization, Kalman filtering, factor graphs, sensor modeling, and similar
- Hands-on experience contributing to production-grade calibration and/or localization systems
- Proficiency in Python and Rust for developing algorithms and the tooling around them
- Comfortable reasoning about uncertainty — both characterizing outputs and tracing propagation to downstream systems
- Eligible to work in the United States

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with online or continuous calibration, where calibration updates feed live into localization
- Experience building evaluation frameworks at fleet scale, outside controlled lab environments
- Familiarity with the failure modes of INS/GNSS in challenging environments, and techniques for handling them
- Comfort with modern build and dev environments (Bazel, monorepos, dev containers, or similar)
- Comfort operating as an early team member — high ownership, low ego, fast iteration

## Compensation

This role is eligible for base salary + benefits + equity compensation. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Additional Information

As part of the interview process, we may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to compare your qualifications and experience to the job description. A human reviews all AI output and makes a final hiring decision. Humble Robotics does not rely on the output to make any employment decisions. Some applicants may have a legal right to opt-out of the use of AI as part of our interview process. Contact **legal@humblerobotics.ai** to exercise this right or if you have further questions on the use of AI tools in our hiring process.

Humble Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. Humble Robotics will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with local ordinances.

## About Humble Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Humble Robotics develops fully autonomous, electric Class 8 haulers to decarbonize and lower the cost of commercial freight transportation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2026
- **Founders**: Eyal Cohen

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Autonomous vehicles, Robotics, Logistics, Freight transportation
- Target customers: Enterprise logistics providers, freight carriers, and global supply chain networks (B2B)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Decarbonizing freight transportation, the backbone of global supply chains but also a major contributor to greenhouse gases."

## Products & Services
- **[Humble Hauler]**: A fully autonomous, electric Class 8 hauler designed for dock-to-dock freight movement. It is cabless, features 360º visibility, and uses vision-first autonomy (vision-language-action models) on a low-cost, flexible hardware platform that supports multiple vehicle configurations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: $24 million in total funding (Seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse (lead investor), Energy Impact Partners. Backed by veteran industry advisors.
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2026 and already raised a $24M seed round; team of 26 employees; actively hiring for 13+ open roles in engineering and autonomy. Has launched initial pilots with leading logistics partners toward commercial deployment.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built, cabless design**: Removing the front cab enables 360º visibility and lowers structural costs.
- **Vision-first autonomy (VLA models)**: Uses advanced physical AI that adapts to complex, real-world logistics scenarios.
- **Experienced team**: Hails from companies like Google, Uber, Apple, Tesla, and Rivian, with deep expertise in autonomy and trucking.
- **End-to-end focus**: Targeting a complete dock-to-dock solution, not just highway autonomy, differentiating from many autonomous trucking competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue development of the autonomous hauler platform.
- Launch and scale initial pilot programs with logistics partners.
- Move toward early-stage manufacturing and broader commercial deployment.
- Grow the engineering team across autonomy, hardware, and software disciplines.

## Why Work Here
- **Team & Culture**: Described as a "fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers" with a "high responsibility, high reward" ethos. Emphasizes "fun, challenging problems" and "brilliant talent to learn from."
- **Work Model**: On-site in San Francisco. Flexible work schedules and "amazing benefits" are advertised. Office is located at the "center of AV innovation."
- **Engineering Culture**: 59% of the workforce is in technical roles. Actively recruiting for engineers in autonomy, simulation, embedded systems, vehicle systems, hardware validation, data engineering, and more. Works with a modern tech stack including Python, PyTorch, CUDA, Linux, Bazel, Terraform, and simulation tools.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Early-stage company tackling a massive challenge (decarbonizing freight), offering high ownership and impact from day one.

## Sources
1. [humblerobotics.ai - Company Page](https://humblerobotics.ai/company)
2. [humblerobotics.ai - Careers Page](https://humblerobotics.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - Humble Robotics](https://linkedin.com/company/humblerobotics)
4. [Built In - Humble Robotics](https://builtin.com/company/humble-robotics)
5. [Lever - Humble Robotics Careers](https://jobs.lever.co/humble-robotics)

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