3D Vision Engineer for Aerial Robotics - Remote possible

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Details

Preferred starting date: ASAP

Weekly availability: full-time (5 days/week)

Location:

a. Aerospace Innovation Hub, Delft, The Netherlands

b. Fully remote with occasional travel to Delft is also an option

About the company

Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up with big ambitions at the frontier of autonomy, perception, and defence. We develop and deploy software for on-board UAV 3D vision in military applications. Our software solutions are built for scalability first, using low-cost and widely available sensors and compute.

Why to work with us

We develop our software in the field and close to the points of use. Flight testing is key for what we do and we test all across Europe. Our team members have strong academic background in different fields such as Aerospace Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Robotics and Computer Graphics. Our main office is located in the TU Delft campus in the faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

We work closely with top-tier partners, ranging from drone manufacturers to research institutes. Our projects span from orders in collaboration with operational partners to low-TRL research with government agencies. Whether through formal R&D programs or rapid prototyping tracks, we operate at the intersection of innovation and deployment.

Your role

Together with the rest of the engineering team, you’ll be working on implementing the core functionalities of Fiducial Scout: our software for full on-board situational awareness for UAVs. This includes interception detection, collision avoidance, target acquisition, and GNSS denied visual navigation.

What we expect from you

• Experience in 3D computer vision and 3D computer graphics

• Good understanding of, and experience with, modern C++

• Real-time software development experience such as game, simulation, robotics or embedded development.

• Second-nature familiarity with 3D reconstruction concepts: projective geometry, bundle adjustment, PnP, triangulation, feature description, image matching. Used in experience with building photogrammetry, augmented reality, robotics or visual inertial odometry (VIO) solutions

• Experience with Radiance Fields: 3D Gaussian Splatting (preferred) or Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)

• A high degree of autonomy, determination and grit in making cool tech work.

• Big plus: experience with GPU programming (CUDA, Torch) and graphics pipelines (Vulkan, OpenGL)

• Big plus: experience with software integration on UAVs

• Big plus: awareness of the zeitgeist in the current academic literature

• Full time availability (40 hours)

While having the perfect background is nice, if you are able to present evidence of outstanding engineering and execution capability we are interested in talking regardless. If you are the right fit, we believe in your ability to pick up the required background knowledge on the fly.

What we offer

• Money of course.

• 25 vacation days per year.

• Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop.

• (Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week when in the Netherlands. A fully remote position with occasional travel to Delft is also an option.

• Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with amazing technology.

• Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions, project ownership is incredibly important to us.

• The opportunity to take technical risks, to implement stuff the ‘right’ way and to iterate quickly with tight feedback loops. We are innovating, learning is to be expected.

• Responsibility over the things you implement, you are the expert on what you build.

• Traveling abroad to test the solutions you built in relevant environments.

The application procedure

• If after reading the above you are convinced you are the right person for the job, send us some information about yourself; this can be a resume, website or other source, as long as we get a clear impression of your background and skills.

• We’ll get back to you ASAP. If we feel you could be a fit for the position, we’ll invite you for an informal introduction so we can get to know you, and equally important, you can get to know us. After this, a second focused interview could follow.

• If at this point we feel you are the person we are looking for, we’ll discuss the specifics.

• Welcome to the team!