Perception Engineer
Merlin Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design, build, and integrate onboard and off-board airborne perception capabilities to enable autonomous flight and decision making.
- Work closely with the R&D software engineering manager to understand team objectives, short term milestones, long term milestones, and technology roadmap.
- Support architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis for perception subsystems.
- Drive sensor, integration, and algorithm approaches for perception subsystems.
- Establish and maintain infrastructure and processes to support development, testing, and evaluation of traditional and machine learning based algorithms.
- Collaborate closely with the rest of the R&D software team throughout the research, design, implement, and test cycle.
- Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards as needed.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject.
- 5+ years of professional experience developing perception software for physical systems such as aircraft, robotics, or medical devices.
- Subject matter expert in the field of perception: detection, processing, and tracking using cameras, radar, LIDAR, and/or other relevant sensor types.
- Experience developing sensor fusion algorithms.
- Experience implementing machine learning based perception and planning algorithms, including using deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques.
- Familiarity with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, OpenCV.
- Experience with Linux and open-source development tools.
- Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, and unit testing, and peer review.
- Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at the system level as well as at the software component level.
- Proficiency writing both Python and C++.
- Familiarity with simulation software.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Unlimited vacation
- 401k with match
- Professional development opportunities
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingarchitecture designtrade-off analysisdocumentationtestingevaluationteam objectives understandingmilestone planning