Senior Software Engineer, Localization (Calibration)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the calibration stack end-to-end: improve reliability of existing offline calibrations, close coverage gaps across the sensor suite (LiDAR, IMU, GNSS, cameras, radar), and ensure every calibration is repeatable, traceable and has clear pass/fail criteria
• ▹Design and build an online calibration validation system that monitors cross-sensor consistency during live missions, detects drift and integrates with the vehicle's safety architecture
• ▹Contribute to the localization and mapping pipeline: sensor integration, performance tuning, regression testing and deployment to new operating environments
• ▹Develop tooling for calibration health logging, diagnostics and post-mission analysis
• ▹Deploy, test and iterate using data from real autonomous operations at active airports

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles with hands-on work in sensor calibration, localization or state estimation
• ▹Strong practical knowledge of multi-sensor calibration (intrinsic, extrinsic and temporal) across LiDARs, IMUs, GNSS and cameras
• ▹Proven experience with non-linear optimization frameworks (Ceres, GTSAM, g2o) or filtering approaches (EKF, UKF)
• ▹Strong C++ skills (C++17+) and working experience with Linux and ROS/ROS2
• ▹Understanding of how calibration quality propagates through localization and perception
• ▹BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

Nice to have

• ▹MS or PhD with a focus on calibration, localization or state estimation
• ▹Experience building online/runtime calibration monitoring for deployed autonomous systems
• ▹Experience with factor graphs, graph-based SLAM, or open-source tools like Kalibr, LIO-SAM, GLIM, Ceres, GTSAM
• ▹Track record of deploying calibration or localization systems on real hardware in production environments
• ▹Experience defining safety-relevant thresholds and working with safety monitoring architectures
• ▹Familiarity with OpenCV, PCL or Open3D

Soft skills

About the company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, helping airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. It is a Series A company backed by top-tier aviation and autonomous driving investors.