Principal Software & State Estimation Engineer, Outrider

• The ideal candidate has experience with developing and deploying algorithms in robotics using camera, lidar, and/or radar data
• Skilled with modern C++, Python
• Experience building state of the art state estimation solutions for real time applications in robotics, including E/KFs, factor graphs, optimization
• Experience building mapping and calibration solutions
• Experience working with camera, lidar, and/or radar data in autonomy application
• Comfort iterating on complex problems and models: problem definition, data, bring-up, debugging, evaluation and deployment
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starter, able to work and overcome challenges independently

Desirable

• We are looking for a Perception Algorithms & State Estimation Engineer to solve complex perception and state estimation problems for online autonomy
• The types of problems the candidate will address may include: object detection and tracking. State estimation for localization, mapping, and sensor calibration
• Modeling and estimating tractor/trailer states, including path curvature, ego and trailer pose, trailer angle, trailer wheelbase/length
• Design and develop state estimation solutions that run online on our autonomous vehicle
• Define meaningful metrics and deliver solutions to achieve them
• Work within the perception team to leverage data, and with other teams to deliver solutions ready for deployment on the autonomous vehicle
• Mentor and guide other team members to help achieve overall perception goals