Perception and Fusion Engineer

About the role

Swarmaero is seeking a Perception and Sensor Fusion Engineer to develop algorithms that provide a shared battlespace picture for large-scale drone swarms. This role focuses on detection, tracking, and estimation, requiring the ability to implement these systems on resource-constrained autonomous vehicles. The successful candidate will work on a high-impact defense technology mission alongside an experienced team.

Responsibilities

• Train, tune, and test automatic target recognition and track management systems using neural networks.
• Develop multi-sensor fusion and state estimation algorithms running onboard resource-constrained vehicles.
• Design distributed fusion approaches that combine tracks across the swarm into a single coherent picture.
• Rigorously 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 redefining air power by building the largest swarming UAV and versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built over 30 novel aircraft.