Autonomy Engineer - State Estimation and Mapping at Shield AI
Introduction to Shield
Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with artificially intelligent
systems. For our team, no idea is too ambitious. We don’t ever want to stop working to
make possible what looks out of reach today. We have assembled a high performing,
empathetic team of people who proudly work on fulfilling our mission and living our values.
Our culture of intelligent, kind and thoughtful teammates keeps work creative, stretching,
and rewarding. We are backed by premier Silicon Valley venture capital investors and
have started shipping product.
Job Description
Are you a passionate and innovative autonomy engineer looking to help develop state of
the art robots and AI products? Are you eager to make a positive difference in the world?
Do you want to work alongside mission driven and values focused teammates? Shield AI
is just the place for you!
As a member of the State Estimation and Mapping team you will conduct research at the
intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine perception. You will be
responsible for developing cutting edge tech that provides robust, accurate estimates of
vehicle pose and surroundings at all times in virtually any environment. Your core
challenge will be creating self improving systems that fuse state-of-the-art sensors and
algorithms to keep our robots self aware with minimal computational requirements; a
fundamental enabler of Shield AI's mission to use mobile robotics and distributable
artificial intelligence to save lives.
What you'll do:
- Researching and developing world class state estimation, mapping and artificial
intelligence algorithms
- Working in a fast-paced, collaborative continuous development environment,
enhancing analysis, testing and benchmarking capabilities
- Enhancing sensor and vehicle dynamics models within a state-of-the-art simulation
environment
People we're looking for:
+ A demonstrated passion for solving complex problems in robotics with little supervision
in a fast-moving team
+ A team player with strong communication skills and the ability to lead and inspire
others
+ Direct experience with state-of-the-art algorithms in one or more of the following or
related areas: Kalman filtering, visual-inertial navigation, simultaneous localization and
mapping, graph-based algorithms, 3D mapping
+ High proficiency in C++
Other preferred experience:
+ Experience in a collaborative development environment including continuous
integration and delivery
+ Experience programming in Matlab, Python or Julia
+ Experience with distributed estimation algorithms
+ M.S. in Computer Science or related quantitative science or 2 years professional
experience in the fields of state estimation, simultaneous localization and mapping or
robotics
Location
San Diego
Visa Sponsorship
Not available
POC
Andrew Dimitruk
(Head of Talent)