Senior R&D Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Enhance the precision, responsiveness, and reliability of indoor-outdoor positioning algorithms across various venues, devices, and real-world scenarios.

• Conduct research, develop, and assess classical estimation and machine learning positioning algorithms utilizing actual venue data.

• Explore new positioning technologies using development kits, reference hardware, and measurement setups.

• Create and employ offline replay, accuracy regression suites, and simulation tools.

• Validate algorithms on real iOS and Android devices.

• Write production code in the shared C++ engine as well as in native iOS and Android sensor and radio scanning layers.

• Optimize performance, memory usage, thread safety, and test coverage.

• Transform field issues and unexpected sensor behavior into reproducible test cases and enhancements for the engine.

• Utilize AI coding agents daily while reviewing and validating their outputs.

• Influence technical decisions through experimentation and code review.

• Document technical rationale and contribute to invention disclosures when appropriate.

• Take ownership of technical areas, achieve measurable improvements in positioning, troubleshoot customer-venue field issues, and assist in establishing measurement standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in performance-sensitive production code.

• Strong foundation in probabilistic state estimation and sensor fusion, including recursive Bayesian filtering and particle-based methods.

• Solid background in applied mathematics encompassing linear algebra, probability, numerical methods, and geometry.

• Experience dealing with noisy, real-world sensor time series, recorded traces, root-cause isolation, measurable validation, and automated testing.

• Daily utilization of AI coding agents and a basic understanding of context windows, tool usage, prompting, instruction files, and common failure modes.

• Familiarity with iOS or Android development sufficient for building and debugging on real devices and modifying native platform code.

• Proficiency with build systems, Git, compilers, sanitizers, profilers, and cross-platform constraints.

• Clear technical communication skills and a collaborative approach to resolving technical disagreements and conducting code reviews.

• Professional proficiency in both written and spoken English.

• Preferred: experience in indoor positioning, GNSS, robotics, SLAM, pedestrian dead reckoning, or RF signal processing.

• Preferred: hands-on experience with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar AI coding agents.

• Preferred: expertise in modern C++, Swift, Kotlin, or shared native cores in iOS and Android applications.

• Preferred: understanding of mobile positioning constraints, including background execution, sensor/radio scanning APIs, power budgets, and device variations.

• Preferred: knowledge of BLE, UWB, or Wi-Fi ranging and positioning.

• Preferred: experience in computational geometry, geospatial data, map processing, wayfinding, or graph algorithms.

• Preferred: application of machine learning to motion or signal models.

• Preferred: familiarity with simulation or visualization tools for algorithm development.

• Preferred: MS or PhD in a relevant field, research publications, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options, commensurate with experience and market standards.

• Private supplementary health insurance, in addition to the statutory SGK coverage.

• Paid annual leave in accordance with Turkish Labor Law (14 days/year for the first 1–5 years of service, increasing with tenure).

• An additional 5 paid days in the first year as a Pointr benefit.

• Official public holidays as designated by the Turkish government (approximately 15 days in 2026).

• Paid sick leave with a doctor's report, per Turkish Labor Law.

• 24 weeks of paid maternity leave (state-paid).

• Up to 6 weeks of paid paternity leave, supplemented by Pointr Bilişim beyond the statutory minimum.

• Mandatory SGK social security contributions.

• Stock options.

• A supportive, inclusive international culture and a smart team.