Senior Staff Engineer, Object Tracking

What You'll Do:

• Research and develop world-class object tracking and data association algorithms and techniques
• Write production quality software in C++
• Write test code to validate your software
• Collaborate with hardware and test teams to validate your algorithms/code on aerial robots
• Write analyzers to ingest data and produce statistics to validate code quality
• Enhance sensor models within a state-of-the-art simulation environment
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, continuous development environment, enhancing analysis and benchmarking capabilities

Required Qualifications:

• M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science or related quantitative science with 7+ years of professional experience in state estimation, object tracking, perception, or similar robotics field
• Proficient with object tracking using noisy high-bandwidth exteroceptive sensors on compute-constrained systems
• Experience prototyping a feature in a high-level language like Python/MATLAB and transitioning it to production code
• A solid foundation in theory related to controls, state estimation, probabilistic robotics, compute vision, and signal processing
• Solid experience working in a collaborative development environment including continuous integration and delivery
• A demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with neural network based object detection and recognition techniques 
• Shipped production grade code for own ship estimation for a flying platform