Senior Software Engineer, Perception

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.

We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.

We are seeking Senior Software Engineers specializing in Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineering. You will leverage cutting-edge research to solve our most challenging perception problems for our UAVs, bringing deep expertise in Object Detection, Object Tracking, or related perception domains. This role requires hands-on proficiency in C++ and/or Python within a Linux environment.

If you are passionate about tackling complex technical challenges in computer vision and perception, we encourage you to apply.

This position will be located at our headquarters in Costa Mesa, CA (relocation benefits provided).

- Propose and prototype innovative solutions to solve real world problems, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art techniques in the field.

- Develop and maintain core libraries and runtime applications.

- Integrate classical and geometric methods in computer vision with ML methods.

- Work with ML and Data Infra team to construct various benchmarks for analyzing system performance.

- MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics or Computer Science, with emphasis on Computer Vision.

- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

- 4+ years experience developing and benchmarking ML algorithms on large-scale datasets.

- High proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment.

- Experience with Python development and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.

- Experience writing and maintaining automated continuous integration tests.

- Object Detection, Object Tracking, Instance Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Semantic change Detection.

- Visual Odometry, SLAM, Multi-view Geometry, Structure from Motion, 3D Geometry, Discriminative Correlation Filters, Stereo, Neural 3D Reconstruction, RGB-D and LIDAR Sensor Fusion.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.