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Senior Perception Engineer — Aerial Vision, Tracking & 3D Geometry

Twentyfour Industries
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MunichFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Perception Engineer to co-own and advance the production perception stack for autonomous drones. Develop real-time C++ systems that combine learned visual detections with multi-object tracking, camera geometry, vehicle state, and monocular 3D target estimation. Focus on real-world, deployable onboard software, validating on recorded and live flight data, and diagnosing failures across the perception pipeline.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain production C++ perception components for camera-based detection, tracking, target localization, and trajectory estimation on autonomous drones.
  • Develop and improve multi-object tracking, data association, motion models, filtering, uncertainty propagation, track management, and fusion of detector and single-object-tracker outputs.
  • Estimate target position and motion in world coordinates by fusing monocular vision with vehicle-state and navigation data, accounting for timing, uncertainty, latency, and degraded sensor states.
  • Integrate and optimize neural-network models in the production C++ pipeline using ONNX, TensorRT, CUDA, and NVIDIA Jetson.
  • Analyze recorded flight data and systematically reproduce and diagnose field failures.
  • Define robust software interfaces and engineering standards, conduct design and code reviews, communicate clearly across disciplines, and collaborate effectively with ML, autonomy, simulation, and flight-test teams.

Qualifications

  • Strong programming skills and experience designing, testing, and maintaining performance-sensitive production software.
  • Hands-on experience shipping perception, state-estimation, localization, or tracking software on real robotic systems.
  • Strong understanding of linear algebra, rigid-body transformations, coordinate frames, and projective geometry.
  • Experience with probabilistic estimation, Kalman filtering or related estimators, uncertainty modeling, motion models, and sensor fusion.
  • Ability to integrate learned models into a broader perception system and reason about preprocessing, output semantics, failure modes, latency, and model-to-system trade-offs.
  • Good understanding of algorithms and data structures, strong software architecture judgment, and a track record of independently owning complex technical systems.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across perception, ML, autonomy, embedded, and flight-test teams.

Skills

Required:C++ production software developmentMulti-object trackingSensor fusionNeural network model integrationFormal software engineering

Benefits

  • Real impact & ownership: Shape high-tech defense systems and take responsibility from day one
  • Mission-driven environment: Work on technologies that matter for European security and sovereignty
  • Competitive package: Competitive salary, EGYM Wellpass, corporate benefits, and equity options aligned with role and level
  • Deep tech environment: Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge drone technology and real operational use cases
  • Grow fast: Steep learning curve for juniors, strategic influence and leadership opportunities for seniors
  • Startup mindset meets defence innovation: flat hierarchies, fast decisions, and space for your ideas
  • Flexibility: Flexible hours, remote options, and relocation support
  • Strong team: International, driven colleagues and a culture built on exchange, trust, and shared success
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Twentyfour Industries

European Drones – at scale

Twentyfour Industries designs, manufactures, and deploys drones for European and allied partners - cost-effectively, at scale, and with end-to-end operational support.

AutonomyC-UASCivil operatorsDronesEuropeanIndustrialMilitaryOperational support
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