merlinlabs - Merlin Labs - Perception Software Engineer
Requirements
• Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject. • 5+ years of professional experience developing perception software for physical systems such as aircraft, robotics, or medical devices. • Subject matter expert the field of perception: detection, processing, and tracking using cameras, radar, LIDAR, and/or other relevant sensor types. • Experience developing sensor fusion algorithms. • Experience implementing machine learning based perception and planning algorithms, including using deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques. • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, OpenCV. • Experience with Linux and open-source development tools. • Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, and unit testing, and peer review. • Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at the system level as well as at the software component level. • Proficiency writing both Python and C++. • Familiarity with simulation software. • Familiarity with the following areas relating to the autonomy software stack: • Reasoning and decision making. • Scheduling and motion planning. • Human-machine interaction. • System reliability. • State estimation and control. • Robotics middleware software such as ROS/2. • Ability to interpret, develop, and integrate abstract code to facilitate efficiency, modularity, and reusability. • Understanding and experience developing systems for intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration. • Experience with hardware and software integration and debugging. • Experience with flight testing (uncrewed or crewed aircraft). • Awareness of aviation certification standards such as DO-178. • Pilot license and flight experience is a plus. • Travel 10-20% of the time to support team meetings, integration events, and flight testing • Merlin Labs offers an innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-focused startup environment. We also offer a top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match) and work/life integration. Being part of the Merlin team allows you to become part of a small team that supports professional development while working together to achieve our mission.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and integrate onboard and off-board airborne perception capabilities to enable autonomous flight and decision making. • Work closely with the R&D software engineering manager to understand team objectives, short term milestones, long term milestones, and technology roadmap. • Support architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis for perception subsystems. • Drive sensor, integration, and algorithm approaches for perception subsystems. • Establish and maintain infrastructure and processes to support development, testing, and evaluation of traditional and machine learning based algorithms. • Collaborate closely with the rest of the R&D software team throughout the research, design, implement, and test cycle. • Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards as needed. • Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
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