Software Engineering Lead - Calibration

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $150,000 USD to $255,000 USD annually.