State Estimation Engineer — Autonomous Localization (Rust)

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco is seeking a seasoned State Estimation Engineer to build and refine localization and state-estimation systems for autonomous machines. You will fuse GNSS, IMU, lidar, and sensors to produce accurate real-time estimates, and you will ensure reliability with monitoring, fault detection, and graceful degradation.

You will collaborate with controls, perception, safety, hardware, and systems teams to advance the complete autonomy stack, with at least 4 years of related

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional engineering or applied research in state estimation, localization, navigation, SLAM, or sensor fusion.
• Strong foundations in probabilistic estimation, linear algebra, 3D geometry, and numerical methods.
• Hands-on experience with GNSS/INS fusion, Kalman filtering, factor graphs, lidar/visual odometry, or sensor calibration.

Responsibilities

• Develop state-estimation systems enabling autonomous machines to understand position, orientation, motion, and configuration.
• Design, implement, and deploy state-estimation and localization algorithms for autonomous construction machines.
• Combine GNSS, IMU, lidar, and machine-sensor data into accurate real-time estimates.
• Improve reliability through sensor monitoring, consistency checks, fault detection, confidence estimates, redundancy, and graceful degradation.
• Handle delayed, out-of-order, intermittent, or missing measurements.
• Build ground-truth systems, offline reference estimators, metrics, and regression tests.
• Collaborate with controls, perception, safety, hardware, and systems teams to improve the complete autonomy system.

Skills

State Estimation

Localization Algorithms

GNSS/INS Fusion

Rust Programming

Kalman Filtering

Sensor Fusion

3D Geometry

Linear Algebra

Data Analysis

Debugging

Education

Degree in Robotics or related field

Tools

Lidar

IMU

GNSS

Simulation

Embedded Platforms

Job description

Jobtailor in San Francisco is seeking a seasoned State Estimation Engineer to build and refine localization and state-estimation systems for autonomous machines. You will fuse GNSS, IMU, lidar, and sensors to produce accurate real-time estimates, and you will ensure reliability with monitoring, fault detection, and graceful degradation.

You will collaborate with controls, perception, safety, hardware, and systems teams to advance the complete autonomy stack, with at least 4 years of related