Perception Engineer

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About us: 

Xwing is an early-stage San Francisco-based startup working to increase human mobility by developing autonomous flight capability for medium aircraft. Our team consists of hands-on passionate individuals with experience from the foremost aerospace companies and academic institutions. We all share a drive to build exceptional products that challenge conventional thinking. Learn more at xwing.com

Who we're looking for:

Xwing is seeking a dedicated and entrepreneurial candidate to develop cutting-edge perception capabilities in autonomous aviation with a world-class engineering team. Responsibilities and compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities 

Include but are not limited to: 

• Use aerospace-grade perception and navigation sensors to help an autonomous aircraft navigate and react to its surroundings on the ground and in the air.
• Develop and improve capabilities for localization, mapping, state estimation, object detection and classification, tracking, and sensor fusion using camera, lidar, radar, GPS, and INS.
• Work with unique datasets from extensive full-scale flight tests to develop perception algorithms
• Transition perception algorithms to real-time operation for use in flight testing

Required skills:  

• 2-10 years of relevant research or industry experience
• Experience with implementing vision-based algorithms in real-time robotic systems
• Experience with hardware/software integration of a vision sensor such as sensor interfacing and calibration
• Demonstrated fluency with at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C++, C) 
• Knowledge of computer vision libraries  (OpenCV) 
• Knowledge of parallel computing libraries ( CUDA, OpenCL,...)
• Previous experience working on vision-based mapping, navigation, or detection and tracking.
• Be able to quickly adapt existing algorithms and take them to demonstration on a flight vehicle

Desirable:

• Familiarity with various AI-driven vision techniques
• Knowledge of sensor fusion and state estimation
• Past academic involvement in related topics (as paid research assistant, research for credit, as part of graduation requirements with thesis, or in other formal setting) 

Employment terms:

This position requires access to information controlled for export under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Commencement of the described job responsibilities requires that the applicant establish status as a US person (as defined in the EAR to include a US citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, or admitted asylee/refugee), or that any authorization required by the EAR has been obtained