Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer – Autonomous Drone Systems

About the Role We are looking for a Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer to join our team developing onboard software for fully autonomous drone inspection systems. The role focuses on perception, autonomy, and system integration for real-world industrial inspections, with a strong emphasis on reliability, robustness, and deployment on embedded robotic platforms.
You will work closely with robotics, AI, and software engineers to develop and improve autonomy features used in production systems operating in challenging outdoor environments.

Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software for autonomous drone navigation and inspection.
- Design and implement computer vision and perception algorithms for real-world environments.
- Develop and improve localization, mapping, and state estimation systems.
- Integrate sensors such as cameras, IMUs, GNSS, and range sensors into robotic applications.
- Develop and maintain software interfacing with DJI drone platforms and SDKs.
- Work on SLAM, landmark tracking,



and environment modeling approaches for inspection tasks.
- Contribute to navigation, path planning, and control integration.
- Optimize algorithms for onboard and real-time execution.
- Develop tools for simulation, visualization, debugging, and testing.
- Integrate and maintain ROS 2 based software components.
- Collaborate on software architecture, code quality, testing, and deployment processes.
- Support field testing, troubleshooting, and validation of autonomous systems.

Required Qualifications
- MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Vision, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.
- Experience with ROS or ROS 2.
- Experience with computer vision and robotics algorithms.
- Experience training and evaluating existing deep learning models for image tasks.
- Good understanding of 3D geometry, state estimation, and 3D transformations.
- Experience working with L

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