Senior Maritime Autonomy & Perception Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity potential

401(k) with 4% matching

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Generous PTO

Job summary

Tocaro Blue in Birmingham, AL, is seeking an experienced Navigation and Autonomy Engineer to design perception, tracking, and navigation systems for autonomous marine vessels. The role involves implementing multi-sensor fusion, SLAM, and global localization with GPS-denied operation in a fast-growing maritime tech company.

You'll work with a tight team of engineers to push the boundaries of marine autonomy, including real-time edge deployments, robust sensor fusion, and high-performance C++

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience applying parameter and state estimation, dead-reckoning and localization, and sensor fusion to dynamic systems (graduate research counts if directly applicable).
• Proven track record through Master's thesis, dissertation, or commercial projects demonstrating mastery of both localization and target tracking.
• Expert-level C++ development backed by 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 using parameter estimation
• Develop Radar-based global localization and SLAM against reference cartography
• Deploy high-performance tracking and SLAM algorithms on real-time edge hardware using optimized C++ implementations
• Create robust sensor fusion algorithms for precise vehicle localization combining GPS, IMU, and signals of opportunity, ensuring real-time inference capabilities in challenging maritime conditions
• Build global path-planning and local obstacle avoidance techniques for over-the-horizon autonomous routing

Job description

Tocaro Blue in Birmingham, AL, is seeking an experienced Navigation and Autonomy Engineer to design perception, tracking, and navigation systems for autonomous marine vessels. The role involves implementing multi-sensor fusion, SLAM, and global localization with GPS-denied operation in a fast-growing maritime tech company.

You'll work with a tight team of engineers to push the boundaries of marine autonomy, including real-time edge deployments, robust sensor fusion, and high-performance C++