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Posted 5 weeks ago

Senior Autonomy Engineer (Computer Vision)

Skydio
United States 🇺🇸
  • Onsite
  • Full Time

$170,000 - $277,500 year

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Job description

  • The core of our system is the computer vision algorithms that allow drones to understand the world around them
  • You will architect and implement the algorithms that run on every drone powered by Skydio as part of a world class computer vision team with researchers who have pushed the state of the art in academia and industry
  • We are looking for people who bring together an understanding of the relevant theory, solid software skills, and an ability to drive through to working solutions
  • Design and implement real-time estimation, mapping, tracking, classification, and detection algorithms
  • Imagine and then implement new features that unlock magic for our users
  • Characterize and quantify the performance of the vision system
  • Research and prototype new approaches
  • Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed
  • Hands-on experience with visual odometry, state estimation, mapping, and SLAM
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced, collaborative, small team environment
  • Proficiency with probabilistic inference and 3d geometry
  • Optimization for computationally constrained environments
  • More important than specific domain experience is an ability to make the math, the algorithms, and the code all line up and work well on real world problems
  • Solid software engineering foundation and a commitment to writing clean, well architected code
  • Deep Learning - training data, neural networks, online learning
  • High proficiency in C++