We are a small team of experts in robotic AI, creating a new category of machine perception and putting it to work with some of the most demanding companies on earth.
Machine vision has run on the same primitive for fifty years: the frame. We build on a different one. Kortx pairs stereo event sensors with laser scanning to create precise, streaming 3D data, fast enough to guide a robot through motion as it happens and rich enough to teach AI models the physics that video can't capture.
The problems here are not incremental. They span sensor physics, real-time systems, CUDA optimization, calibration, perception algorithms, and machine learning, and the answers aren't in a textbook yet. If you want problems no one has solved before, this is that.
Our systems are in active programs with global leaders in automotive, semiconductor manufacturing, and medical robotics, moving onto plant floors for proof-of-concept work. What you build gets tested against real parts, real lighting, and real production conditions.
You will take problems end to end, alongside teammates who have solved things just as hard. No layers between you and the work that matters, and what you build ships fast.
Optics, firmware, algorithms, applications, and the customer's factory floor all meet here, and getting something working usually means crossing a few of those lines. You will learn domains that a larger company would never have handed you.
Summer Robotics was co-founded by Schuyler Cullen, previously VP of AI and Robotics at Samsung, with a PhD in physics from Stanford and a BS in physics from Caltech, and Dirk Smits, a technologist and prolific inventor with three decades as a corporate executive, an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in honors physics from UBC. Rick Van Valkenburg leads commercial as CCO, after 30 years in automation and machine vision, including VP of Sales and Marketing at Perceptron.
You would join a tight-knit engineering team: a PhD from MIT and master's degrees from Stanford, ISEP, the University of Tennessee, and the University of South Florida, covering robotics algorithms, CUDA optimization, control theory, real-time C++, software infrastructure, and DevOps/MLOps. Between them they have shipped products at Google, Tesla, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Woven.
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