1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy computer vision systems for autonomous landing and landing-zone evaluation.
- Build perception systems for targetless landing in unstructured and dynamic environments.
- Develop algorithms for terrain understanding, obstacle detection, and environment classification.
- Work with onboard camera, IMU, GPS, and other sensor data in real flight environments.
- Improve system performance using operational flight data, testing, and iteration.
- Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, and flight operations teams to integrate perception into flight behaviors.
- Debug perception and autonomy issues during simulation, ground testing, and flight operations.
- Contribute to software architecture, testing, integration, and deployment workflows.
- Mentor junior perception engineers and improve the quality of perception system design, testing, and deployment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying computer vision or perception systems in real-world environments.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
- Experience with perception systems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, or aerospace platforms.
- Experience working with real sensor data and operational deployment constraints.
- Strong understanding of camera systems, sensor fusion, and state estimation concepts.
- Experience debugging and improving deployed perception systems using logs, telemetry, or flight data.
- Experience with autonomous aircraft or aerial robotics is preferred.
- Experience with landing-zone evaluation, terrain classification, or visual navigation systems is preferred.
- Background in SLAM, visual odometry, or GPS-denied navigation is preferred.
- Experience with embedded or real-time systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with ROS2 or similar robotics frameworks is preferred.
- Experience deploying perception systems to resource-constrained platforms is preferred.
- The role is limited to U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or candidates from specific countries authorized under applicable export control regulations.
