Aerovect

Senior Software Engineer, Localization (Calibration)

Remote. Posted 3 months ago

The role

This person will own the calibration stack end-to-end and improve the reliability of existing offline calibrations. They will design an online calibration validation system and contribute to localization, mapping, and sensor integration efforts.

What you will do

  • Own the calibration stack end-to-end
  • Improve reliability of existing offline calibrations
  • Close coverage gaps across the sensor suite
  • Ensure every calibration is repeatable, traceable, and has clear pass/fail criteria
  • Design and build an online calibration validation system
  • Contribute to the localization and mapping pipeline
  • Develop tooling for calibration health logging, diagnostics, and post-mission analysis
  • Deploy, test, and iterate using data from real autonomous operations at active airports

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles with hands-on work in sensor calibration, localization, or state estimation
  • Strong practical knowledge of multi-sensor calibration - intrinsic, extrinsic, and temporal - across LiDARs, IMUs, GNSS, and cameras
  • Proven experience with non-linear optimization frameworks (Ceres, GTSAM, g2o) or filtering approaches (EKF, UKF)
  • Strong C++ skills (C++17+)
  • Working experience with Linux and ROS/ROS2
  • Understanding of how calibration quality propagates through localization and perception
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or related field

Nice to have

  • MS or PhD with a focus on calibration, localization, or state estimation
  • Experience building online/runtime calibration monitoring for deployed autonomous systems
  • Experience with factor graphs, graph-based SLAM, or open-source tools like Kalibr, LIO-SAM, GLIM, Ceres, GTSAM
  • Track record of deploying calibration or localization systems on real hardware in production environments
  • Experience defining safety-relevant thresholds and working with safety monitoring architectures
  • Familiarity with OpenCV, PCL, or Open3D

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.