Senior AI & CV Engineer — Autonomous Defense, Stock Options

Sphere Defense; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Attractive compensation

Year-end bonus

Stock Options Plan

Mobility Budget

32 days of holidays

Meal vouchers

Private Health insurance

Résumé du poste

Sphere Defense, based in Brussels, Belgium, is a fully funded technology startup focused on autonomous countermeasures to neutralize aerial threats. We seek an experienced Senior AI & Computer Vision Engineer to lead perception pipelines, model training, and real-time video processing, collaborating with Embedded Software, Control and Hardware teams.

You will own end-to-end CV/AI development, port ML models to various platforms, and contribute to production-grade systems in a defense domain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, or equivalent.
• At least 8 years of experience in a relevant position.
• Proficiency with one production language (C++) and one prototyping language (Python).
• Demonstrated ability to produce production-grade, highly optimized target code.
• Experience in porting ML models to different platforms (e.g. ONNX) and adapting to constrained NPUs.
• Strong knowledge of computer vision and image processing.
• Excellent English communication; French or Dutch a plus.

Responsabilités

• Be one of the first members of a high-performing team, designing and developing autonomous countermeasures to protect allied countries from aerial threats.
• Own, design, develop, document and test state of the art perception pipelines for situational awareness and detection, identification and tracking of targets.
• Architect and train computer vision models for object recognition, environmental awareness and collision avoidance.
• Use both classical CV methods and AI-based techniques to process real-time video streams (thermal and visible light).
• Collaborate with Embedded Software, Control, Hardware and Test teams for system architecture definition, sensor selection, calibration and characterization.
• Be hands-on, working close to the hardware when needed during development and tests.
• Draft and review documentation and design documents.
• Be a team player and a mentor, being available to support and grow the team when needed.

Connaissances

C++

Python

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

ROS2

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, or equivalent

Outils

ONNX

VIO/SLAM

Description du poste

Sphere Defense, based in Brussels, Belgium, is a fully funded technology startup focused on autonomous countermeasures to neutralize aerial threats. We seek an experienced Senior AI & Computer Vision Engineer to lead perception pipelines, model training, and real-time video processing, collaborating with Embedded Software, Control and Hardware teams.

You will own end-to-end CV/AI development, port ML models to various platforms, and contribute to production-grade systems in a defense domain.