Senior Perception Engineer - Maritime Autonomy

Ocean Infinity; Southampton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is seeking a Senior Perception Engineer to design, build and integrate perception capabilities across our fleet of uncrewed marine vessels. You'll turn raw sensor data from cameras, sonar and other sources into reliable outputs for autonomy, navigation and operational teams.

You will lead the development of perception pipelines, integrate components into ROS2-based software, and work across lab testing, simulation and field deployments to ensure robust perception systems in

Qualifications

• MSc/PhD in robotics, computer vision, CS or related field.
• Strong Python and/or C++ production-quality development.
• Experience developing perception systems in real-world robotics.
• Willing to occasionally travel for integration, testing, deployments.
• Experience with ROS or ROS2 or similar robotics middleware.
• Experience with simulated environments for development and testing.
• Deep understanding of camera and other robot sensors.
• End-to-end perception pipelines development, debugging and integration.
• Knowledge of Linux development environment.
• Understanding of git, code review, automated testing and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and improve perception pipelines for sensor data outputs.
• Integrate perception components into ROS2-based software with platform engineers.
• Build image-processing and sensor-processing components for autonomy and navigation.
• Hands-on lab testing, simulation and field deployments to validate outputs.
• Debug perception issues using logs, replay tooling and visualization.
• Build and improve tooling to visualize, inspect, replay and validate outputs.
• Review code, mentor teammates and unblock integration problems.
• Define interfaces between perception and the rest of the stack with robotics team.

Skills

Python

C++

ROS/ROS2

Linux

CI/CD

Git

Debugging

Sensor data

Education

MSc/PhD in robotics or related field

Job description

Ocean Infinity is seeking a Senior Perception Engineer to design, build and integrate perception capabilities across our fleet of uncrewed marine vessels. You'll turn raw sensor data from cameras, sonar and other sources into reliable outputs for autonomy, navigation and operational teams.

You will lead the development of perception pipelines, integrate components into ROS2-based software, and work across lab testing, simulation and field deployments to ensure robust perception systems in