Senior Software Engineer, Localization & Calibration

AeroVect; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering technology company in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Localization team. This role focuses on improving and adapting calibration systems for autonomous operations. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles, with strong skills in sensor calibration, C++, and non-linear optimization. Collaboration with various teams will be essential as the project scales. Experience with safety monitoring architectures is preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
• Hands-on work in sensor calibration, localization or state estimation.
• Strong practical knowledge of multi-sensor calibration.

Responsibilities

• Own the calibration stack end-to-end.
• Design and build an online calibration validation system.
• Contribute to the localization and mapping pipeline.
• Develop tooling for calibration health logging.
• Deploy, test, and iterate using real autonomous operations data.

Skills

sensor calibration

localization

C++

non-linear optimization

Linux

ROS/ROS2

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Robotics

Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Ceres

OpenCV

PCL

Open3D

Job description

A pioneering technology company in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Localization team. This role focuses on improving and adapting calibration systems for autonomous operations. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles, with strong skills in sensor calibration, C++, and non-linear optimization. Collaboration with various teams will be essential as the project scales. Experience with safety monitoring architectures is preferred.