Associate Navigation & Autonomy Engineer

Tocaro Blue•Birmingham, AL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Tocaro Blue is seeking an Associate Navigation and Autonomy Engineer to join their elite team of 5-7 engineers in Birmingham, Alabama. This role involves architecting and implementing software products for maritime autonomy, including multi-target tracking, sensor fusion (marine Radar and EO/IR cameras), localization in GPS-denied environments, and path-planning. The software supports Unmanned and Autonomous Surface Vehicles (USV and ASV) for the US Navy and major marine electronic manufacturers for recreational ADAS and autopilot applications. This is a unique opportunity to define the autonomy roadmap for the marine industry, evolving from perception systems to obstacle avoidance and full autonomous control.

Requirements

Advanced degree (MS) in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field
2+ years of hands-on experience applying parameter and state estimation, dead-reckoning and localization, and sensor fusion to dynamic systems (graduate research counts if directly applicable)
Proven track record through Master's thesis, dissertation, or commercial projects demonstrating mastery of both localization and target tracking.
C++ development backed by Python and/or MATLAB prototyping.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with kinematics, statistics, and state estimators
Experience implementing fusion and tracking models in C++ or python prototypes
Portfolio of personal projects or research solving complex real-world problems through software innovation
Examples of previous work in automotive or marine systems, robotics, or other autonomous vehicle development
Passion for pushing the boundaries of what's achievable with sensor fusion in challenging environments
Design-of-experiment for perception and fusion system testing and evaluation.

Responsibilities

Design multi-object tracking evaluation tools, and automatic tuning procedures, for maritime situational awareness
Contribute to real-time multi-sensor-multi-object fusion tracking algorithms
Create vessel motion models to enhance object tracking using parameter estimation
Design experiments to characterize the behavior of radars, cameras, and other perception sensors
Build test-fixtures and calibration scripts to determine intrinsic behavior of marine sensors
Assist with simulation of marine perception, tracking, and autonomy systems