4 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own and improve the offline calibration stack, including reliability, sensor-suite coverage, repeatability, traceability, and pass/fail criteria.
- Design and build online calibration validation to monitor cross-sensor consistency, detect drift, and integrate with the vehicle safety architecture.
- Contribute to localization and mapping through sensor integration, performance tuning, regression testing, and deployment to new environments.
- Develop calibration health logging, diagnostics, and post-mission analysis tooling.
- Deploy, test, and iterate calibration and localization systems using data from autonomous operations at active airports.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles with hands-on work in sensor calibration, localization, or state estimation.
- Strong practical knowledge of intrinsic, extrinsic, and temporal multi-sensor calibration across LiDARs, IMUs, GNSS, and cameras.
- Experience with non-linear optimization frameworks such as Ceres, GTSAM, and g2o, or filtering approaches such as EKF and UKF.
- Strong C++ skills, including C++17+, and working experience with Linux and ROS/ROS2.
- Understanding of how calibration quality propagates through localization and perception.
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred: MS or PhD focused on calibration, localization, or state estimation.
- Preferred: experience with online or runtime calibration monitoring, factor graphs, graph-based SLAM, production deployment on real hardware, safety-relevant thresholds, safety monitoring architectures, OpenCV, PCL, or Open3D.
About AeroVect
AeroVect builds autonomous driving systems and software to automate airport ground service equipment, improving ramp logistics for airlines, airports, and ground handling providers. It deploys and supports autonomy for fleets used by major carriers and ground service companies. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in South San Francisco, it is a privately held Series A company.