6 months ago
Remote, EMEA or Munich, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Own and develop core Fiducial Scout functionality including interception detection, collision avoidance, target acquisition, and GNSS-denied visual navigation.
- Shape and drive the short- to medium-term development roadmap.
- Develop and maintain real-time 3D vision and aerial robotics software for onboard UAV deployment.
- Work with camera calibration, sensor timestamp integrity, time synchronization, 3D reconstruction, GPU programming, and graphics pipelines.
- Depending on the project, serve as Tech Lead by guiding technical direction, coordinating implementation, and ensuring delivery.
- Integrate and debug software in UAVs and real-world flight-test conditions when required.
Requirements
- Good understanding of and experience with modern C++.
- Experience developing real-time software in areas such as games, simulation, robotics, or embedded systems.
- Strong familiarity with projective geometry, bundle adjustment, PnP, triangulation, feature description, image matching, and 3D reconstruction.
- Experience building photogrammetry, augmented reality, robotics, or visual/inertial odometry solutions.
- Experience with 3D Gaussian Splatting or derivatives.
- Strong understanding of transform trees, pose representations, quaternions, and spatial mathematics used in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics.
- Hands-on experience calibrating camera intrinsics and extrinsics, including practical work with inexpensive cameras and calibration drift.
- Experience maintaining timestamp integrity and sensor alignment, including diagnosing time offsets, jitter, dropped frames, and clock synchronization issues.
- Experience with GPU programming using CUDA or OpenCL and graphics pipelines using Vulkan or OpenGL.
- Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering.
- High autonomy, determination, and execution capability.
- UAV software integration experience, familiarity with current 3D vision academic literature, and outstanding engineering or execution capability are advantageous.
- Full-time availability of 40 hours per week.
Benefits
- 25 vacation days per year.
- Reimbursed travel expenses and a company laptop.
- Flexible working hours and the option to work from home two days per week when based in the Netherlands.
- Fully remote work is available with regular travel to Delft and flight-testing locations; other options include Delft or access to a future Munich office.
- International team, substantial project ownership, freedom in implementation, rapid iteration, and opportunities to travel abroad for testing.
- Preferred starting date is ASAP.
About Fiducial
Fiducial provides professional services and software to small businesses and entrepreneurs, including bookkeeping, payroll, tax compliance, audit, and legal and financial advisory. Founded in 1970 and privately held, it is headquartered in La Défense, France, and operates in Europe and the United States. The company also offers cloud tools and back‑office solutions such as office supplies and security services.