Perception and Fusion Engineer

About the role

Swarmaero is seeking a Perception and Sensor Fusion Engineer to develop algorithms that provide a large-scale drone swarm with an accurate, shared picture of the battlespace. This role focuses on detection, tracking, and estimation, requiring the candidate to implement these systems on resource-constrained autonomous vehicles. The successful candidate will work on real-time inference and see their algorithms deployed on actual flight systems.

Responsibilities

• Train, tune, and test automatic target recognition and track management systems using neural networks.
• Develop multi-sensor fusion and state estimation algorithms such as Kalman filters and particle filters for onboard vehicle use.
• Design distributed fusion approaches to combine tracks across the swarm into a coherent picture.
• Characterize algorithm performance against real-world flight data and simulation.
• Optimize models and estimators for real-time inference on edge compute.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Travel up to 25% of the time for onsite test and integration events.

Required skills

• Estimation theory
• Multi-target tracking
• Kalman filters
• Particle filters
• Deep learning
• Neural networks
• C++
• Rust
• Go
• Python

Nice to have

• ATR
• Multi-sensor fusion
• Distributed estimation
• EO/IR
• Radar
• RF sensor processing
• TensorRT
• ONNX
• Quantization

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, or related field
• Equivalent depth of applied experience

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• PTO
• Paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Daily catered lunch
• Paid parental leave

About the Company

Swarmaero is a defense technology company redefining air power by building the largest swarming UAV and versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The team consists of experienced engineers and operators who have previously designed and built over 30 novel aircraft and negotiated multi-billion dollar defense deals.