5 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design perception and computer vision systems for autonomous aerial platforms in GPS-denied and contested environments.
- Develop object detection, classification, segmentation, tracking, scene understanding, obstacle detection, collision avoidance, and situational-awareness capabilities using RGB, thermal, and multimodal data.
- Develop visual-inertial odometry, localization, mapping, SLAM, and vision-based navigation systems.
- Fuse camera, IMU, GPS, lidar, and radar data using robust estimation and sensor-fusion methods.
- Train, deploy, evaluate, and optimize deep-learning perception models for real-time inference on embedded and edge-AI hardware.
- Create data processing, labeling, augmentation, evaluation, simulation, and testing pipelines.
- Integrate RGB, stereo, fisheye, thermal, and event-based cameras, including calibration and synchronization workflows.
- Support software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, flight testing, flight-data analysis, validation, documentation, and field deployments.
- Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, flight software, AI, hardware, and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 2–4 years of industry experience in computer vision, robotics, machine learning, or autonomous systems, or a master’s degree with 1–2 years of industry experience.
- Strong proficiency in C++, Python, or Rust.
- Experience with OpenCV and modern computer vision frameworks.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar machine-learning frameworks.
- Strong understanding of image processing, geometric vision, and camera systems.
- Experience with object detection, tracking, segmentation, and machine-learning-based perception algorithms.
- Familiarity with sensor fusion and state estimation techniques.
- Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware and software development in Linux environments.
- Preferred experience includes a master’s or PhD, autonomous aircraft or UAV systems, visual SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, camera calibration, lidar/radar/thermal/inertial sensor integration, embedded AI deployment, simulation environments, real-time optimization, open-source robotics contributions, and defense-industry standards or security-clearance processes.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Onsite work at the headquarters office in Palo Alto, California.
- Applicants must be eligible for employment in the United States.
About Pivotal
Pivotal is a philanthropic and programmatic organization founded by Melinda French Gates that supports programs, investments, and policy to expand women’s and young people’s power and opportunities in the U.S. and worldwide. It operates through Pivotal Philanthropies, Pivotal Initiatives Fund, and Pivotal Ventures, using grants and strategic partnerships rather than selling products. The organization is privately held and headquartered in Seattle.