🕒 2 days ago
Join the MEGA team as a Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer, designing and building scalable ML systems and infrastructure to support advanced robotics research.
Staff Engineer, Perception (R5611)
🕒 24 days ago
Visual-inertial OdometryVisual SLAMVision-based NavigationState Estimation
📜 Description
- Develop robust state-estimation and sensor-fusion solutions using cameras, IMUs, and other onboard sensors.
- Develop geo-localization and map-matching capabilities using satellite, aerial, or orthophoto imagery.
- Integrate perception and navigation algorithms with flight-control and autonomy systems.
- Implement and optimize algorithms in C++ for real-time operation on embedded Linux platforms.
🛠️ Requirements
- Significant hands-on experience developing robotics perception or navigation systems.
- Strong expertise in VIO, visual SLAM, vision-based navigation, or GNSS-denied localization.
- Deep understanding of camera–IMU sensor fusion, state estimation, calibration, and time synchronization.
- Strong knowledge of geometric computer vision, including feature tracking, optical flow, pose estimation, triangulation, and visual localization.
- Experience deploying perception or navigation capabilities on UAS/UAVs or other autonomous robotic platforms.
- Strong C++ development skills and experience working in Linux environments.
- Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, Orin, or similar embedded-compute platforms.
- Experience optimizing perception workloads using CUDA, TensorRT, or comparable acceleration technologies.
- Hands-on experience with GStreamer, V4L2, camera pipelines, and real-time video processing.
- Experience deploying containerized software to embedded platforms using Docker.
✨ Benefits
- Design, develop, and deploy VIO, visual SLAM, visual localization, and vision-based navigation capabilities for autonomous aircraft.
- Build geometric computer-vision components, including feature tracking, optical flow, pose estimation, triangulation, and visual localization.
Full job description
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We are seeking a Senior or Staff Robotics Perception Engineer to develop and deploy advanced perception and navigation capabilities for autonomous aircraft operating in complex and GNSS-denied environments.
This role requires deep expertise in visual-inertial odometry (VIO), visual SLAM, vision-based navigation, state estimation, and camera–IMU sensor fusion. You will take algorithms from early-stage prototypes through embedded implementation, field testing, and flight validation on operational autonomous platforms.
This is not a general AI/ML or object-detection role. We are looking for an engineer whose core expertise lies at the intersection of robotics perception, VIO/SLAM, state estimation, camera and inertial sensing, and real-time embedded deployment.
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. #LI-LD2 #LD Our international teammates receive a comprehensive total rewards package aligned to your country office location. For full details on compensation and benefits, please consult your talent acquisition partner.What you'll do:
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