Autonomy & Perception Engineer — GPS-Denied Edge Navigation

Powerus; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Powerus is seeking an Autonomy & Perception Engineer to develop perception, navigation, and decision-making software for aircraft. You will tackle visual navigation, object detection and tracking, sensor fusion, and autonomous behaviours, moving algorithms from prototype to on-vehicle deployment and flight validation on compute-constrained edge hardware.

Based in the Charlotte, NC area, you will collaborate with GNC and embedded teams to push capabilities toward flight-ready autonomy, with

Qualifications

• Must be located in the United States, within commuting distance of Charlotte, NC.
• Experience developing perception, computer vision, or autonomy software for physical systems.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Working knowledge of computer vision fundamentals and modern deep learning practice.
• Experience deploying algorithms to embedded or edge compute platforms.
• Comfort working with real sensor data and its imperfections.
• U.S. Person status required (ITAR/EAR-controlled data).

Responsibilities

• Develop perception algorithms for detection, tracking, and scene understanding from onboard sensors.
• Build visual and inertial navigation capability for GPS-denied and degraded environments.
• Implement sensor fusion across cameras, IMU, and other onboard sensing.
• Optimise models and algorithms for real-time performance on constrained edge compute.
• Take capability from simulation through hardware-in-the-loop to flight validation.
• Analyse flight logs and field data to diagnose and improve autonomy performance.
• Build datasets, evaluation harnesses, and regression testing for autonomy behaviour.
• Partner with GNC and embedded teams at the boundaries between perception and control.

Skills

C++

Python

Computer vision

Autonomy software

Edge compute

Tools

TensorRT

ROS

SLAM

Job description

Powerus is seeking an Autonomy & Perception Engineer to develop perception, navigation, and decision-making software for aircraft. You will tackle visual navigation, object detection and tracking, sensor fusion, and autonomous behaviours, moving algorithms from prototype to on-vehicle deployment and flight validation on compute-constrained edge hardware.

Based in the Charlotte, NC area, you will collaborate with GNC and embedded teams to push capabilities toward flight-ready autonomy, with