Senior Maritime Autonomy Engineer — Sensor Fusion & SLAM

Tocaro Blue; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with 4% match

Health, dental, vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Generous PTO

Conference attendance

Job summary

Tocaro Blue is hiring a Senior Navigation and Autonomy Engineer to shape autonomous marine operations. You will design fusion-driven perception, tracking, and localization, working with a small elite team to push capabilities on edge hardware.

Office in Birmingham, AL offers fieldwork in Pensacola, FL and collaboration with marine OEMs and US Navy partners. The role demands 7+ years of experience and expert C++ development in a robotics/marine context.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience applying parameter/state estimation, dead-reckoning localization, and sensor fusion.
• Proven track record through theses, dissertations, or projects showing localization and tracking mastery.
• Expert-level C++ development with Python and/or MATLAB prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize multi-object tracking systems for maritime situational awareness.
• Contribute to real-time multi-sensor-multi-object fusion tracking algorithms.
• Create vessel motion models to enhance object tracking via parameter estimation.
• Develop Radar-based localization and SLAM against reference cartography.
• Deploy tracking and SLAM algorithms on edge hardware using optimized C++.
• Build sensor fusion for precise vessel localization with GPS/IMU/signals of opportunity.

Skills

C++ development

Python

MATLAB prototyping

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics or related field

Tools

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Tocaro Blue is hiring a Senior Navigation and Autonomy Engineer to shape autonomous marine operations. You will design fusion-driven perception, tracking, and localization, working with a small elite team to push capabilities on edge hardware.

Office in Birmingham, AL offers fieldwork in Pensacola, FL and collaboration with marine OEMs and US Navy partners. The role demands 7+ years of experience and expert C++ development in a robotics/marine context.