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Staff Engineer, Perception (R5611)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Flight System Integration / International Office Entity
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Hybrid (London)International Office EntityPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior or Staff Robotics Perception Engineer to develop and deploy advanced perception and navigation capabilities for autonomous aircraft operating in complex and GNSS-denied environments. Focus on VIO/SLAM, state estimation, camera–IMU fusion, and real-time embedded deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy VIO, visual SLAM, visual localization, and vision-based navigation capabilities for autonomous aircraft.
  • Develop robust state-estimation and sensor-fusion solutions using cameras, IMUs, and other onboard sensors.
  • Build geometric computer-vision components, including feature tracking, optical flow, pose estimation, triangulation, and visual localization.
  • Develop geo-localization and map-matching capabilities using satellite, aerial, or orthophoto imagery.
  • Integrate perception and navigation algorithms with flight-control and autonomy systems.
  • Implement and optimize algorithms in C++ for real-time operation on embedded Linux platforms.
  • Develop and maintain real-time camera and video-processing pipelines using technologies such as GStreamer and V4L2.
  • Optimize workloads for NVIDIA Jetson, Orin, or comparable embedded-compute platforms, including CUDA and TensorRT where appropriate.

Qualifications

  • Significant hands-on experience developing robotics perception or navigation systems.
  • Strong expertise in VIO, visual SLAM, vision-based navigation, or GNSS-denied localization.
  • Deep understanding of camera–IMU sensor fusion, state estimation, calibration, and time synchronization.
  • Strong knowledge of geometric computer vision, including feature tracking, optical flow, pose estimation, triangulation, and visual localization.
  • Experience deploying perception or navigation capabilities on UAS/UAVs or other autonomous robotic platforms.
  • Strong C++ development skills and experience working in Linux environments.

Skills

Required:VIO / visual SLAMCamera–IMU sensor fusionGeometric computer visionC++ developmentEmbedded LinuxUAS/UAV deployment
Nice to have:GStreamer / V4L2CUDA / TensorRT
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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