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Staff Autonomy Engineer (Drone)

Ladders · United States · 2 mo ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$120k–$150k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Own the autonomy software stack for the company products including perception and inventory scanning pipelines
  • Contribute to the design and architecture of product autonomy stack as it scales
  • Document existing systems and plan for future revisions
  • Design and implement algorithms for identifying and recording inventory locations
  • Improve scan accuracy and coverage through algorithmic and sensor integration improvements
  • Build and maintain systems that manage scan triggering and location mapping
  • Collaborate with hardware and field teams to diagnose issues and implement improvements

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, specifically in autonomy, robotics, or perception systems
  • Minimum 3 years of experience building systems that run on physical hardware in production environments
  • Proficient in C++ and Python, especially for embedded or resource-constrained platforms
  • Hands-on experience with computer vision pipelines, including detection and localization
  • Demonstrated ability to debug software on deployed systems using logs and field data

Benefits

  • Autonomy over core software stack contributing to product innovation
  • Direct collaboration with cross-functional teams including hardware and ML
  • Opportunity to work on real-world systems under challenging conditions
  • Significant technical ownership in a rapidly growing sector
  • Impact on the accuracy and reliability of customer inventory data

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