Senior Event-Based Robotics Research Engineer — VIO & Motion Estimation

Promethion Industries; Berlin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Promethion Industries seeks researchers and engineers to advance VIO, visual odometry and state estimation for high-speed aerial robotics. You will work with event cameras and asynchronous sensing, emphasizing IMU fusion and real-world hardware deployments.

You will bridge academic literature and practical implementations, optimizing sensor timing and high-rate processing on embedded compute stacks, contributing to robust autonomy solutions for defence applications in Europe.

Qualifications

• Strong research or engineering background in VIO, visual odometry, SLAM or state estimation.
• Experience with event cameras or asynchronous sensing.
• Strong understanding of IMU fusion and nonlinear estimation.
• Strong C++ skills.
• Experience implementing research algorithms on real hardware.
• Strong understanding of sensor timing, calibration and high-rate data processing.
• Ability to work from academic literature to reproducible real-world implementation.

Responsibilities

• Develop event-based VIO and motion-estimation approaches for high-speed aerial robotics.
• Explore asynchronous optical flow, event-IMU fusion and direct velocity estimation.
• Develop continuous-time estimation approaches suitable for high-rate asynchronous sensing.
• Evaluate event-based methods for GNSS-denied and high-dynamic flight.
• Build and validate hybrid frame + event + IMU estimators.
• Investigate velocity-space estimation for terminal high-dynamic operation.
• Characterize failure modes including scale drift, low texture, sensor mismatch and high angular rates.
• Port promising research onto embedded compute and evaluate real latency and resource requirements.
• Work directly with the core state-estimation team to transition validated approaches into the main stack.

Skills

VIO

Visual odometry

SLAM

Event cameras

IMU fusion

Nonlinear estimation

C++

Real hardware

Sensor timing

Research-to-implementation

Job description

About Promethion Industries

Promethion Industries is a European defence technology company building autonomous supremacy systems for aerial and multi-domain operations. We design tightly integrated autonomy stacks in Europe to enable decisive autonomy for NATO-aligned forces, focusing on defensive and counter-system capabilities including anti-UAS and resilient autonomy under contested conditions.

Your mission with us

• Develop event-based VIO and motion-estimation approaches for high-speed aerial robotics.

• Explore asynchronous optical flow, event-IMU fusion and direct velocity estimation.

• Develop continuous-time estimation approaches suitable for high-rate asynchronous sensing.

• Evaluate event-based methods for GNSS-denied and high-dynamic flight.

• Build and validate hybrid frame + event + IMU estimators.

• Investigate velocity-space estimation for terminal high-dynamic operation.

• Characterize failure modes including scale drift, low texture, sensor mismatch and high angular rates.

• Port promising research onto embedded compute and evaluate real latency and resource requirements.

• Work directly with the core state-estimation team to transition validated approaches into the main stack.

The offboarding work specifically highlights event+IMU fusion, direct velocity estimation and event-based high-speed state estimation, alongside concrete concerns around scale drift and embedded compute limits. Neuromorphic VIO and OF (1)

Your contribution to the team (required)

• Strong research or engineering background in VIO, visual odometry, SLAM or state estimation.

• Experience with event cameras or asynchronous sensing.

• Strong understanding of IMU fusion and nonlinear estimation.

• Strong C++ skills.

• Experience implementing research algorithms on real hardware.

• Strong understanding of sensor timing, calibration and high-rate data processing.

• Ability to work from academic literature to reproducible real-world implementation.