Senior Localization Engineer: Calibration & Sensor Fusion

AeroVect; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is building autonomous ground handling systems and seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Localization team. You will own calibration end-to-end, improve reliability across LiDAR, IMU, GNSS, cameras and radar, and design an online validation system for live missions at major airports.

You will also contribute to localization, mapping, and sensor integration efforts, developing tooling for health logging, diagnostics, and post-mission analysis while collaborating with Perception,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in robotics or autonomous vehicles with hands-on sensor calibration/localization/state estimation.
• Strong multi-sensor calibration knowledge across LiDARs, IMUs, GNSS, and cameras.
• Experience with non-linear optimization (Ceres, GTSAM) or filtering (EKF/UKF).
• Proficiency in C++17+ and Linux/ROS/ROS2.
• Understanding how calibration quality affects localization and perception.

Responsibilities

• Own the calibration stack end-to-end with repeatable, traceable results.
• Design and build online calibration validation monitoring for cross-sensor consistency.
• Contribute to localization and mapping pipeline, sensor integration, regression testing.
• Develop tooling for calibration health logging, diagnostics, and post-mission analysis.
• Deploy and iterate using data from real autonomous operations at airports.

Skills

Sensor calibration

Localization

State estimation

C++17+

Linux

ROS/ROS2

Education

BS/MS in CS/Robotics/EE/Eng

Tools

Ceres

GTSAM

Kalibr

LIO-SAM

OpenCV

Job description

AeroVect is building autonomous ground handling systems and seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Localization team. You will own calibration end-to-end, improve reliability across LiDAR, IMU, GNSS, cameras and radar, and design an online validation system for live missions at major airports.

You will also contribute to localization, mapping, and sensor integration efforts, developing tooling for health logging, diagnostics, and post-mission analysis while collaborating with Perception,