Senior Computer Vision Engineer

SPAICE; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the aerospace and defense sectors, SPAICE seeks a Computer Vision Engineer specializing in multimodal sensing. You'll work on groundbreaking projects enabling autonomous systems to operate in challenging environments. If you have expertise in perception algorithms and want to make a tangible impact, this role offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity options

Access to premium gyms

Team retreats & offsites

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience (or PhD).
• Strong software engineering skills in performance-critical CV/ML code.
• Proven ability to deliver well-tested, production-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Implement perception pipelines for situational awareness and collision avoidance.
• Build the Perception stack of Spatial AI architectures.
• Integrate sensor fusion & neural representations for real-time models.

Skills

multimodal perception

sensor fusion

semantic scene understanding

SLAM

computer vision

C++

Python

Education

M.S. in Computer Vision/Robotics

Job description

About SPAICE

SPAICE is building the autonomy operating system that empowers satellites and drones to navigate and interact with the world – regardless of the environment. From GPS-denied zones on Earth to the unexplored frontiers of space, our Spatial AI delivers unprecedented levels of autonomy, resilience, and adaptability.

At SPAICE, you’ll work on real missions alongside leading aerospace and defense contractors, shaping the future of space and autonomous systems. If you're looking for a place where your work has a real, tangible impact – SPAICE is that place.

About the Role

Satellites that detect & avoid threats on their own. Drones that collaborate in GPS‑denied fields. Spacecraft that rendezvous with tumbling targets in orbit. All of these feats demand robust scene understanding from multiple sensors. That’s where you come in.

As a Computer Vision Engineer (Multimodal Sensing) you’ll implement and refine perception algorithms that fuse cameras, LiDAR, radar, event sensors, and beyond. Working shoulder‑to‑shoulder with a top‑tier team of CV scientists, you’ll translate cutting‑edge research into flight‑ready code for space and defense missions.

What you might work on

• Implement perception pipelines for situational awareness, collision detection & avoidance, formation flying, surveillance and terrain mapping across satellites and drones operating in GPS‑denied, dynamic environments.

• Build the Perception stack of our Spatial AI architectures, fusing visual, inertial, and depth cues for robust, multi‑sensor scene understanding.

• Integrate sensor fusion & neural representations to create dense onboard world models that run in real time on resource‑constrained hardware.

• Deploy semantic scene understanding, visual place recognition, pose estimation, and monocular depth estimation on embedded or edge‑AI processors.

• Collaborate with a top‑tier team of CV scientists and cross‑disciplinary engineers, delivering well‑tested, high‑performance code into flight processors, Hardware‑in‑the‑Loop (HIL) and Software‑in‑the‑Loop (SIL) setups, and real missions.

What we are looking for

• M.S. in Computer Vision/Robotics, or a related field plus.

• 3+ of industry experience (or a PhD).

• Expertise in multimodal perception & sensor fusion, neural representations, semantic scene understanding, SLAM / camera‑pose estimation, monocular depth estimation, visual place recognition.

• Strong software engineering skills in C++ and Python, including performance‑critical CV/ML code on Linux or embedded platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver production‑quality, well‑tested code in collaborative, fast‑moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with GPU or edge‑AI acceleration (CUDA, TensorRT, Vulkan, or similar).

• Experience deploying perception pipelines on resource‑constrained hardware.

• Publications in multimodal sensing/neural representations/SLAM for robotics or autonomous navigation in journals and conferences (e.g. CVPR, ICRA, ICCV, NeurIPS).

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience and impact.

• Equity options – you will join us at the ground floor and share in the upside.

• Well‑being perks – access to premium gyms, climbing centers, and wellness programs.

• Team retreats & offsites – recent adventures include a half‑marathon in Formentera and a Los Angeles retreat during Oscars weekend.