Staff Engineer, Perception (R5611)

Hybrid

Posted 2 months ago

Hivemind Solutions Division

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This role involves the integration, testing, and deployment of autonomous systems, working across software development, hardware, and flight operations in fast-paced environments. It requires hands-on experience with troubleshooting and supporting live flight operations.

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Job Description

Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We are seeking a Senior or Staff Robotics Perception Engineer to develop and deploy advanced perception and navigation capabilities for autonomous aircraft operating in complex and GNSS-denied environments.

This role requires deep expertise in visual-inertial odometry (VIO), visual SLAM, vision-based navigation, state estimation, and camera–IMU sensor fusion. You will take algorithms from early-stage prototypes through embedded implementation, field testing, and flight validation on operational autonomous platforms.

This is not a general AI/ML or object-detection role. We are looking for an engineer whose core expertise lies at the intersection of robotics perception, VIO/SLAM, state estimation, camera and inertial sensing, and real-time embedded deployment.

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

Design, develop, and deploy VIO, visual SLAM, visual localization, and vision-based navigation capabilities for autonomous aircraft.

Develop robust state-estimation and sensor-fusion solutions using cameras, IMUs, and other onboard sensors.

Build geometric computer-vision components, including feature tracking, optical flow, pose estimation, triangulation, and visual localization.

Develop geo-localization and map-matching capabilities using satellite, aerial, or orthophoto imagery.

Integrate perception and navigation algorithms with flight-control and autonomy systems.

Implement and optimize algorithms in C++ for real-time operation on embedded Linux platforms.

Develop and maintain real-time camera and video-processing pipelines using technologies such as GStreamer and V4L2.

Optimize workloads for NVIDIA Jetson, Orin, or comparable embedded-compute platforms, including CUDA and TensorRT where appropriate.

Requirements

Required qualifications:

Significant hands-on experience developing robotics perception or navigation systems.

Strong expertise in VIO, visual SLAM, vision-based navigation, or GNSS-denied localization.

Deep understanding of camera–IMU sensor fusion, state estimation, calibration, and time synchronization.

Strong knowledge of geometric computer vision, including feature tracking, optical flow, pose estimation, triangulation, and visual localization.

Experience deploying perception or navigation capabilities on UAS/UAVs or other autonomous robotic platforms.

Strong C++ development skills and experience working in Linux environments.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, Orin, or similar embedded-compute platforms.

Experience optimizing perception workloads using CUDA, TensorRT, or comparable acceleration technologies.

Hands-on experience with GStreamer, V4L2, camera pipelines, and real-time video processing.

Experience deploying containerized software to embedded platforms using Docker.

Experience with vision-based navigation, geo-localization, or map matching using satellite, aerial, or orthophoto imagery.

Familiarity with frameworks and libraries such as OpenVINS, VINS-Fusion, ORB-SLAM3, GTSAM, Ceres Solver, OpenCV, or Kalibr.

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Posted on: Aug 27, 2026
Job type: Full-time
Location: LondonHybrid

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