Senior 3D Vision Engineer – Aerial Robotics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• In the role of Senior 3D Vision Engineer for Aerial Robotics, you will hold significant responsibility for the fundamental features of Fiducial Scout: our on-board situational awareness system for UAVs.

• Your responsibilities will encompass interception detection, collision avoidance, target acquisition, and visual navigation in GNSS-denied environments.

• You will influence and guide the development roadmap for the short-to-medium term.

• Additionally, depending on project requirements, you may assume the position of Tech Lead, steering technical direction, coordinating implementation tasks, and ensuring project delivery aligns with defined scopes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong understanding and practical experience with contemporary C++.

• Experience in real-time software development, such as in gaming, simulations, robotics, or embedded systems.

• Deep familiarity with 3D reconstruction principles: projective geometry, bundle adjustment, PnP, triangulation, feature description, and image matching.

• Experience with 3D Gaussian Splatting or its variants.

• Profound understanding of transform trees and pose representations utilized in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics.

• Practical experience in calibrating camera intrinsics and extrinsics.

• Experience in maintaining timestamp integrity and ensuring precise time alignment across sensors, including diagnosing and rectifying time offsets, jitter, dropped frames, and clock synchronization issues within an onboard pipeline.

• Familiarity with GPU programming (CUDA, OpenCL) and graphics pipelines (Vulkan, OpenGL).

• Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering to enhance your effectiveness and ownership of the codebase as a tech lead.

• A high level of autonomy, determination, and perseverance in making advanced technology function effectively.

• Highly desirable: experience in integrating software on UAVs (considering onboard constraints, deployment, and debugging in flight-test scenarios).

• Highly desirable: awareness of current trends in 3D vision academic literature.

• Availability for full-time work (40 hours per week).

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 vacation days annually.

• Reimbursement for travel expenses and provision of a company laptop.

• (Genuinely) flexible working hours and the option to work from home two days a week when located in the Netherlands.

• Collaborating within an international, top-tier team of engineers and entrepreneurs who are addressing real-world challenges with cutting-edge technology.

• Significant autonomy in your working methods and solution implementation; project ownership is of utmost importance to us.

• The chance to take technical risks, implement solutions correctly, and iterate quickly with robust feedback loops.

• Accountability for the solutions you create, as you will be the expert on your developments.

• Opportunities for international travel to test the solutions you have developed in relevant environments.