Perception Engineer, Anduril Industries

• This will require strong systems-level knowledge and experience
• If you are someone who possess a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions then this role is for you
• BS in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
• Strong computer vision and machine learning background and fluency in standard domain libraries (numpy, opencv, pytorch, etc)
• Experience deploying software to end customers, internal or external — turning research and development efforts into used software
• 4+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages
• Must be willing to travel 25%
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Desirable

• The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy
• We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together
• We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem
• We develop Perception and Autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers
• We are looking for a Perception Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Boston, MA
• In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving computer vision, motion planning, SLAM, controls, estimation, networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way
• Your will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes
• Develop and evaluate machine learning and computer vision techniques for object detection and tracking
• Deploy these approaches to operational settings, by moving features along a release process that starts in simulation and ends running in an embedded and operational context
• Evaluate and characterize cameras and gimbals to inform autonomy system constraints and performance expectations
• Design experiments, data collection efforts, and curate training/evaluation sets to develop insights both for internal Anduril purposes as well as customers, deciding the features and implementing them
• Drive the flight testing and test configuration for evaluating the implemented features against real data on target hardware for validating technical approaches
• Work closely with vendors and government stakeholders as we seek to advance the art of possible for large drone teams