Vision & Guidance Engineer, UAS Flight Systems

Systems Technology, Inc. (STI); Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and vision plans

ESOP

401(k) plan

Job summary

Systems Technology, Inc. (STI) in Hawthorne/Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Perception & Guidance Engineer - UAS to own the pipeline from raw camera frames to steering commands, developing detection, tracking, state estimation, and guidance laws for next-generation counter-UAS and interceptor platforms.

You'll work with embedded and systems engineering, ensure real-time performance on constrained flight hardware, participate in flight testing, and translate perception outputs into flight-control

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional experience in computer vision, guidance/navigation algorithms, or closely related controls/estimation work.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for algorithm development.
• Working knowledge of computer vision fundamentals and/or classical guidance laws.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement detection and tracking algorithms for visual seeker systems.
• Develop state estimation for target position and velocity from visual data, with eye toward sensor fusion.
• Design and tune guidance laws for terminal-phase target intercept.
• Work with embedded engineers to run algorithms in real time on constrained flight hardware.
• Define and validate interfaces between perception/guidance outputs and flight control/mission systems.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop simulations to evaluate algorithm performance before flight.
• Participate in flight testing, telemetry analysis, and post-flight debugging of guidance performance.
• Collaborate with GNC engineers to ensure guidance outputs fit flight-control assumptions.
• Maintain code quality through version control and structured testing.

Skills

Python/C++

Computer vision

Kalman filtering

Guidance/navigation algorithms

Problem solving

Job description

Systems Technology, Inc. (STI) in Hawthorne/Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Perception & Guidance Engineer - UAS to own the pipeline from raw camera frames to steering commands, developing detection, tracking, state estimation, and guidance laws for next-generation counter-UAS and interceptor platforms.

You'll work with embedded and systems engineering, ensure real-time performance on constrained flight hardware, participate in flight testing, and translate perception outputs into flight-control