Perception Engineer

What we're looking for

We need someone with 4-8 years of experience in robotics perception and estimation who has hands-on C++ development skills and a track record of building perception, sensor fusion, or localization systems for physical platforms. You should be comfortable working with real sensor data from cameras, radar, and similar systems, and have experience integrating, configuring, and calibrating sensor hardware on actual vehicles. Bonus points if you have experience with probabilistic state estimation, Kalman filtering, SLAM, visual odometry, or deploying autonomous systems in the field.

What you'll do

• Develop perception, localization, state-estimation, multi-object tracking, and sensor-fusion algorithms for autonomous maritime vehicles
• Process camera, radar, and similar sensor data to produce reliable estimates of the vehicle and its environment
• Implement, test, and optimize production perception software in C++
• Analyze real-world data and vehicle behavior to diagnose failures and improve system robustness
• Integrate perception capabilities with the broader autonomy stack and validate them on real vehicles
• Contribute to perception architecture and system design decisions that shape how Saildrone's USVs understand the world around them