Autonomy Engineer, Real-Time Computer Vision for UAVs

Dormont Manufacturing Co; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical plan

401K plan

Maternity/Paternity leave

Flexible time off

Seattle office parking

Job summary

BRINC is seeking a Computer Vision Engineer to advance perception for UAVs and public safety products. You will design and optimize real-time vision algorithms for localization, mapping, and navigation, collaborating across software, autonomy, controls, and hardware teams.

You will work on VIO/VSLAM, depth/reconstruction, and sensor fusion with cameras, IMUs, LiDAR, and radar, while ensuring production-ready performance on embedded GPUs and accelerated hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, EE, or related field with 3+ years industry experience.
• Strong programming in C++ and Python, with real-time systems experience.
• Experience in robotics/UAV perception, VSLAM/VIO, and CV methods.
• CV models/pipelines on embedded GPUs or accelerators.
• Robotics/UAV testing, data collection, and field validation.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement vision-based localization and mapping (VIO/VSLAM).
• Develop real-time CV pipelines for tracking, depth estimation, and reconstruction.
• Architect sensor fusion with cameras, IMUs, LiDAR, and radar.
• Build perception algorithms for navigation, obstacle detection, and flight behaviours.
• Develop CV/ML models for scene understanding and object detection.
• Optimize CV pipelines on embedded GPUs or accelerators for low latency.
• Validate performance via simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight tests.
• Collaborate with autonomy, controls, hardware and firmware teams.
• Contribute to strategy and best practices for perception stack.

Skills

C++

Python

VIO/VSLAM

Embedded systems

ROS

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Robotics/EE

Tools

ROS

MAVSDK

PX4

Job description

BRINC is seeking a Computer Vision Engineer to advance perception for UAVs and public safety products. You will design and optimize real-time vision algorithms for localization, mapping, and navigation, collaborating across software, autonomy, controls, and hardware teams.

You will work on VIO/VSLAM, depth/reconstruction, and sensor fusion with cameras, IMUs, LiDAR, and radar, while ensuring production-ready performance on embedded GPUs and accelerated hardware.