Senior Real-Time Vision Engineer for High-Speed Drones

CDDS; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct impact on mission-critical tech

High-ownership startup environment

Hands-on tech team

Real-world testing and deployments

Job summary

CDDS is seeking a Senior Vision & Perception Engineer to architect and optimize a low-latency vision pipeline on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. You will develop DeepStream-based pipelines in C++, integrate differential-imaging workflows, and ensure end-to-end real-time performance.

You will collaborate with robotics, control, and embedded engineers to build the perception backbone for high-speed interception and real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• MSc/PhD in Computer Vision, Robotics, CS, or similar.
• Expert knowledge in DeepStream, GStreamer, and low-level video pipelines.
• Strong C++ skills and experience with CUDA, TensorRT, or Jetson optimisation.
• Strong background in modern detection models (YOLO, EfficientDet, etc.)
• Experience with ROS2 and multi-process robotic systems.
• Comfortable with rapid field-testing cycles and high‑ownership environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize vision pipelines in C++ for low-latency object detection and tracking.
• Develop high-speed detection and tracking algorithms on Jetson platforms.
• Optimise TensorRT inference performance.
• Profile and tune performance down to kernel-level bottlenecks.
• Maintain GPU-accelerated development containers and CI pipelines.

Skills

C++

DeepStream

GStreamer

CUDA

TensorRT

Jetson

ROS2

Object detection

Profiling

CI pipelines

Education

MSc/PhD in Computer Vision or Robotics

Tools

YOLO

EfficientDet

Job description

CDDS is seeking a Senior Vision & Perception Engineer to architect and optimize a low-latency vision pipeline on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. You will develop DeepStream-based pipelines in C++, integrate differential-imaging workflows, and ensure end-to-end real-time performance.

You will collaborate with robotics, control, and embedded engineers to build the perception backbone for high-speed interception and real-world deployments.