Edge Autonomy & Perception Engineer for GPS-Denied Ops

Powerus; Rock Hill (SC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 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 work on perception, object detection and tracking, sensor fusion, and autonomous behaviours, taking algorithms from prototype through on-vehicle deployment and flight validation.

You will optimize algorithms for real-time performance on compute-constrained edge hardware and drive testing from simulation to flight validation, using real sensor data to improve

Qualifications

• Must be located in the United States, within commuting distance of Rock Hill, SC.

Responsibilities

• Develop perception algorithms for detection, tracking, and scene understanding from onboard sensors.
• Build visual and inertial navigation for GPS-denied environments.
• Implement sensor fusion across cameras and IMU.
• Optimize models for real-time performance on constrained edge compute.
• Take capability from simulation through hardware-in-the-loop to flight validation.
• Analyze flight logs and field data to diagnose and improve autonomy.

Skills

Perception software

Computer vision

Autonomy software

C++

Python

Embedded/edge compute

Sensor data handling

ROS

Tools

ROS

TensorRT

Job description

Powerus is seeking an Autonomy & Perception Engineer to develop perception, navigation, and decision-making software for aircraft. You will work on perception, object detection and tracking, sensor fusion, and autonomous behaviours, taking algorithms from prototype through on-vehicle deployment and flight validation.

You will optimize algorithms for real-time performance on compute-constrained edge hardware and drive testing from simulation to flight validation, using real sensor data to improve