Vision-Driven Drone Navigation Engineer

DSS Aerospace; Fatih; On-site; TRY 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Cutting-edge autonomous flight tech

Collaborative R&D environment

Job summary

DSS Aerospace in Turkey is seeking a Visual Navigation Engineer to design and optimize vision-based navigation systems for UAV platforms. You will develop visual odometry, SLAM, and sensor fusion pipelines that enable localization and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

This hands-on role offers growth within our autonomy stack and collaboration with flight control, hardware, and systems teams, plus a fast-paced R&D culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
• Strong experience with computer vision techniques including feature detection, optical flow, stereo vision, SLAM.
• Proficiency in C++ and/or Python and experience with vision/robotics frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement visual odometry, SLAM, and visual-inertial navigation systems for UAVs.
• Develop and optimize real-time computer vision algorithms for onboard processing.
• Integrate navigation systems with flight control and sensor fusion (IMU, GPS, LiDAR, barometer).
• Conduct simulation and real-world flight testing to validate navigation accuracy.
• Optimize algorithms for embedded/edge hardware constraints and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Analyze flight data to diagnose and improve navigation performance.
• Stay updated with advances in computer vision, SLAM, and autonomous navigation.

Skills

Computer vision techniques

C++ / Python

Sensor fusion

Embedded / real-time

Linear algebra / estimation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/EE/Robotics/Aerospace or related field

Tools

OpenCV

ROS/ROS2

PCL

Job description

DSS Aerospace in Turkey is seeking a Visual Navigation Engineer to design and optimize vision-based navigation systems for UAV platforms. You will develop visual odometry, SLAM, and sensor fusion pipelines that enable localization and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

This hands-on role offers growth within our autonomy stack and collaboration with flight control, hardware, and systems teams, plus a fast-paced R&D culture.