Software Engineering Lead - Calibration

Company: Applied Intuition Inc.
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

About the role
We are looking for a software engineer with expertise in calibration systems for autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. Your contributions will focus on designing and building a calibration pipeline for a growing fleet of vehicles. You will drive a critical foundational piece of our AV program by ensuring that every vehicle's configuration is well represented digitally. In this role you will exercise engineering excellence to unlock both developer and production workflows at scale.
In addition to your engineering contributions, by working in our dynamic and customer-focused team culture, you will be a key contributor for a new business that builds on and informs best practices in the nascent autonomy industry. We move fast and focus on excellence, for our products and for our business. If you are hands-on and looking for a place to have a multiplying effect on making autonomous systems a reality, Applied Intuition is the place for you!
At Applied Intuition, you will:

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• Design and implement a Calibration program that manages the lifecycle and deployment of both sensor intrinsic and extrinsic calibration for a variety of vehicles of different sensor configurations.
  
• Build state-of the art algorithms for both offline calibration in the factory / lab and online calibration to account for sensor variation due to temperature or other on-road and off-road conditions.
  
• Design processes around handling Calibration requests from both internal and external teams, as well as manage the operations around data collection, processing, and deployment.
  
• Enable sensor fusion and work with a variety of sensors including Camera, Lidar, Radar, IMU, GNSS, and more.
  
• Drive an excellent product experience by designing a user-friendly Calibration procedure, as well as exposure of online Calibration status through HMI integration.
  
  We're looking for someone who has:
  
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  • Passion for building a best-in-class calibration system that is aware and robust to rough terrain for an off-road vehicle.
    
  • MSc in calibration, state-estimation, optimization, or closely related field
    
  • 5+ yrs of experience building software components or (sub) systems that address real-world calibration challenges
    
  • Hands-on experience with more than one domain relevant software framework or tools, such as middlewares, benchmarking suites, data sets and related pipelines, or algorithmic libraries
    
  • Deep understanding of the core calibration concepts, world representations and transforms, optimization, the intersection of perception and state-estimation, and noise characteristics of various sensors.
    
  • Knowledge about how to analyze and compare the performance of various hardware solutions for Calibration
    
  • C++ and/or Python programming expertise
    
    Nice to have:
    
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    • PhD in calibration, non-linear optimization, state-estimation, or closely related field
      
    • Has done hands-on work in relevant state-of-the-art offline and online calibration algorithms, and experience with both early and late stage sensor fusion for state estimation.
      
    • Deep understanding of inertial and perception sensors, state of the art industry solutions, and common approaches for production systems
      
    • Experience working with managing calibration on large fleets of vehicles
      
      The salary range for this position is $150,000 USD to $255,000 USD annually. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company's compensation practices.
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