Online Calibration & SLAM Engineer

Mecka; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka is hiring a Senior SLAM & Calibration Engineer to own calibration of devices after factory release. You will implement online calibration, refine video-based calibration, and monitor calibration drift across the fleet.

You will work with the CVML and hardware teams to ensure calibration integrity on real hardware in production. This on-site role requires collaboration across time zones and periodic travel to our hardware site, with emphasis on robust SLAM/VIO backed by strong C++/Python

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience building, maintaining, or improving SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, and Structure-from-Motion pipelines in production.
• Hands-on experience with online or continuous calibration and camera + IMU calibration.
• Experience owning calibration across many devices and building monitoring to catch drift.

Responsibilities

• Own online calibration: develop continuous, in-pipeline camera calibration from hardware-synced video and IMU.
• Rebuild video-based calibration across the fleet including monocular wrist-cam path.
• Monitor the fleet: build metrics to detect calibration drift and manage calibration version history.
• Make SLAM carry calibration: improve SLAM/VIO to output calibration-related signals.

Skills

SLAM / VIO / SfM depth

C++ and Python

Online calibration

Multi-view geometry

Tools

Kalibr

GTSAM

Ceres Solver

OpenCV

COLMAP

Job description

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems. We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.

The Role

We're looking for a hands-on Senior SLAM & Calibration Engineer to own how Mecka's devices stay calibrated after they leave the factory. Cameras and IMUs drift over months and mounts warp, so a device that shipped in spec can fall out of it. You'll build the systems that catch and correct that drift: online (in-pipeline) camera calibration, video-based calibration refinement, fleet-wide drift monitoring, and the tools operations and researchers use to track it, all built on solid SLAM/VIO foundations. This is a production role, not pure research: you'll own systems that run across the real fleet. You'll work directly with the CVML team and coordinate with our factory-calibration engineer and hardware team. Because the work runs on real, hardware-synced recordings and is validated on physical devices, this is an on-site role with periodic travel to our hardware site.

What you'll do

• Own online calibration: Develop and maintain continuous, in-pipeline camera calibration that refines extrinsics from recorded, hardware-synced, uncompressed video and IMU — the pipeline equivalent of on-device calibration, so fixes ship without a device software update.
• Rebuild video-based calibration: Fix and harden the video-based calibration refinement system across the fleet, including the monocular wrist-cam path, and drive it against real benchmarks.
• Monitor the fleet: Build the monitoring and metrics tracking that detects calibration drift across every device, flags devices for recall, and owns the calibration database and version history.
• Make SLAM carry calibration: Maintain and improve the SLAM/VIO that online calibration rides on, and have it emit calibration-related error as a first-class output.
• Bridge to hardware: Coordinate with the factory-calibration engineer and the China hardware team on the intrinsics limit (online refinement fixes extrinsics; intrinsics need a marker at the factory), IMU noise and bias parameters, temporal synchronization, and validation runs that avoid local minima.
• Build the tooling: Ship interactive tools (Rerun / Gradio) that visualize trajectories, drift over time, reprojection error, and per-device calibration metrics for operations and researchers.

What You Bring

Must-have:

• SLAM / VIO / SfM depth: 5+ years of hands-on experience building, maintaining, or improving SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, and Structure-from-Motion pipelines, including systems running in production.
• Continuous and multi-sensor calibration: Hands-on experience with online or continuous calibration and rigorous camera + IMU calibration: extrinsics, intrinsics and their limits, IMU noise density and random-walk bias, lens-distortion models, and temporal synchronization.
• Fleet and data-quality mindset: You're comfortable owning calibration across many noisy, real-world devices, and you build the monitoring that catches drift before customers do.
• Multi-view geometry and optimization: An intuitive grasp of the linear algebra, optimization, and first principles behind spatial tracking.
• Engineering rigor: Clean, efficient, scalable C++ and Python.
• Cross-border collaboration: You can specify calibration requirements clearly to a hardware team across time zones.

Nice-to-have

• Markerless calibration: Experience with video-based or markerless calibration and refinement systems.
• Calibration frameworks: Sensor-fusion and calibration tools such as Kalibr, GTSAM, or Ceres Solver.
• 3D vision and ML libraries: OpenCV, COLMAP, PyTorch, and FFmpeg.
• Fleet observability: Monitoring at scale, including calibration databases and versioning.
• Spatial tooling: Rerun, Gradio dashboards, or trajectory and dataset browsers.
• Scale: ML infrastructure or data pipelines that operate at scale.

A Note on Applying

Studies show women and candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they meet 100% of the listed qualifications, while others apply after meeting 60%. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply — we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.

Inclusive Hiring at Mecka

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience.

Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation.

Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law.

We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category.

Mecka is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering a culture of inclusivity and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

Mecka uses artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to support administrative and efficiency-focused aspects of our recruitment process. This includes activities such as drafting job descriptions, generating interview questions, note-taking and recordings, and supporting sourcing and scheduling workflows. All candidate evaluations, interviews, and hiring decisions are made by members of the Mecka team. While AI tools may assist with screening and assessment, they do not replace human judgment in selection decisions. Our use of AI is intended to streamline routine tasks, improve consistency, and enhance the overall candidate experience. We are committed to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability in all hiring activities. Mecka regularly reviews its recruitment practices to mitigate bias and to ensure alignment with applicable laws and evolving best practices.

Compensation

Compensation Range: CA$200K - CA$230K