Senior Navigation & Autonomy Engineer

About the role

Join Tocaro Blue, where your expertise in perception, tracking, and navigation will shape the future of maritime perception and autonomous navigation.

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 vessel 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

Requirements

• 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

Preferred Expertise

• Expert understanding of geometry, statistics, and state estimators
• Experience optimizing and deploying localization, fusion, and tracking models to edge computing platforms using C++

Benefits

Competitive Compensation & Growth: $130,000-$162,000 base salary with potential for equity in a rapidly growing company

Comprehensive benefits: 401(k) with 4% company matching, full health/dental/vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and generous PTO

Innovation-First Culture: Direct impact on defining the future of maritime autonomy, access to challenging real-world problems that push the limits of current Marine Autonomy capabilities, collaborative environment with top-tier engineers and researchers

Work Environment: Engineering office in Birmingham, AL, Engaging fieldwork opportunities with monthly data collection trips to our Pensacola, FL testing facility, Work-life balance that supports both innovation and personal growth