Staff Software Engineer, Localization

The role

You will own parts of the localization, mapping, and calibration stack. You will drive these systems to production reliability on real hardware at active airports.

What you will do

• Take ownership of core areas of the localization stack including LiDAR-inertial-GNSS state estimation, 3D mapping and map maintenance, or sensor calibration
• Contribute to the localization and mapping pipeline from sensor integration to deployment
• Design and build online validation to monitor localization integrity and cross-sensor consistency
• Develop tooling for diagnostics, health logging, and post-mission analysis
• Contribute to the regression, validation, and release-gating approach for localization changes
• Deploy, test, and iterate using data from real autonomous operations

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in robotics or autonomous vehicles
• Track record of owning localization or state-estimation systems through production deployment on real hardware
• Deep practical grounding in multi-sensor fusion and state estimation across LiDAR, IMU, GNSS, and cameras
• Demonstrated technical leadership
• Strong command of non-linear optimization (Ceres, GTSAM, g2o) and/or filtering (EKF, UKF)
• Strong modern C++ (C++17+)
• Deep working experience with Linux and ROS/ROS2
• Understanding of how calibration quality propagates through localization and perception
• Understanding of how localization errors propagate into the safety case
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

Nice to have

• MS or PhD with a focus on localization, state estimation, or calibration
• Hands-on experience with multi-sensor calibration - intrinsic, extrinsic, and temporal
• Experience with factor graphs, graph-based SLAM, or open-source tools like GLIM, LIO-SAM, Cartographer, Kalibr, Ceres, GTSAM
• Experience building online/runtime monitoring and defining safety-relevant thresholds within a safety monitoring architecture
• Track record of taking an autonomous system toward driverless operation

About the company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. It is a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving.