Computer Vision Engineer - Perception for Autonomy

Computer Vision Engineer — Perception for Autonomy

Location: [Palo Alto / hybrid]

The role:

We fly drones that inspect real infrastructure. That means reconstructing sites accurately enough to detect change over time, and giving the autonomy stack a picture of the world it can actually act on.

You'll own perception for a moving platform — reconstruction, pose, and the simulated environments we use to train and evaluate flight behavior. You'll work closely with the autonomy side without owning the flight controller.

What you'll work on:

• Reconstruction — Gaussian splatting and photogrammetric pipelines producing metrically accurate, georeferenced scenes from drone imagery
• Pose and state estimation — bundle adjustment, RTK/GNSS and IMU fusion, visual-inertial odometry, multi-camera calibration
• Simulation for autonomy — turning reconstructions into training and evaluation environments for flight policies, and characterizing where sim diverges from reality
• Change detection across reconstructions separated by weeks or months
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