Software Engineer - Calibration

Applied Intuition•Sunnyvale, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

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 contribute towards a critical foundational piece of our AV program by ensuring that every vehicle is able to leverage a multi-sensor, multi-modal representation of the world to navigate through it. 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 contribute to and learn from best practices in the nascent autonomy industry. We move fast and we 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 is the place for you!

Requirements

2+ years of experience building software components or (sub) systems that address practical engineering challenges
Hands-on experience with one or more domain relevant algorithm, software framework or tools, such as calibration, middleware, benchmarking suites, data sets and related pipelines, or algorithmic libraries
C++ and/or Python programming expertise
Willingness to learn and be a self starter, and can quickly become comfortable with new technical tools
Passion for turning their software development expertise into solving real-world applications of autonomous system

Nice To Haves

MSc in calibration, state-estimation, optimization, or closely related field
Understanding of the core calibration concepts, world representations and transforms, optimization, the intersection of perception and state-estimation, and noise characteristics of various sensors
Experience doing 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.
Understanding of inertial and perception sensors, state of the art industry solutions, and common approaches for production systems
Experience building and shipping software frameworks or tools that are used by others than the authors of the framework

Responsibilities

Implement a software pipeline which enables calibration of sensor intrinsic and extrinsic parameters for a variety of vehicles of different sensor configurations
Design processes to manage the lifecycle and deployment of calibrations besides operations around data collection, processing and evaluation
Work across teams, interface closely with and contribute to the core calibration algorithm team at Applied
Have an opportunity to 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
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