Real-Time Drone Vision & Perception Engineer

Vanthal Technologies, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Three weeks paid time off per year

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Eligibility for an annual performance/

Job summary

Vanthal Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Computer Vision and Perception Engineer to develop real-time perception systems for unmanned aircraft and collaborative robotics. This on-site role in Annapolis, Maryland emphasizes production software, edge deployment, dataset evaluation, and live aircraft testing.

The candidate will work on object detection, tracking, localization, SLAM, and data-to-action perception pipelines, ensuring reliability under real-world constraints.

Qualifications

• At least four years of professional experience in computer vision, ML, robotics, or related field.
• At least two years deploying CV/ML systems on physical hardware or edge devices.
• Strong Python and modern C++ programming experience.
• Experience with PyTorch or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with OpenCV or similar libraries.
• Experience deploying inference workloads on GPUs/edge hardware.
• Experience with camera calibration and image-processing pipelines.
• Experience with Git and automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Develop real-time computer-vision and perception software.
• Build object-detection and classification systems.
• Implement multi-object tracking and visual localization.
• Develop visual SLAM and mapping capabilities where appropriate.
• Create perception outputs for navigation and mission systems.
• Measure latency, throughput, and reliability of perception pipelines.
• Integrate perception with autonomy and mission-systems software.
• Collaborate with embedded, autonomy, and flight-test teams.
• Maintain documentation for models, datasets, interfaces, and deployment.

Skills

Python

C++

PyTorch

OpenCV

Git

Automated tests

Edge deployment

GStreamer

ROS

CUDA

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TensorRT

ONNX

Jetson

Embedded hardware

Job description

Vanthal Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Computer Vision and Perception Engineer to develop real-time perception systems for unmanned aircraft and collaborative robotics. This on-site role in Annapolis, Maryland emphasizes production software, edge deployment, dataset evaluation, and live aircraft testing.

The candidate will work on object detection, tracking, localization, SLAM, and data-to-action perception pipelines, ensuring reliability under real-world constraints.