Senior 3D Vision Engineer for Aerial Robotics (Remote available)

The role

You will have ownership over core functionalities of Fiducial Scout, including interception detection, collision avoidance, target acquisition, and GNSS-denied visual navigation. You will shape the development roadmap and may act as a Tech Lead for specific projects.

What you will do

• Ownership over core functionalities of Fiducial Scout
• Develop interception detection, collision avoidance, target acquisition, and GNSS-denied visual navigation
• Shape and drive the short-to-medium-term development roadmap
• Act as Tech Lead to guide technical direction and coordinate implementation efforts

Required qualifications

• Good understanding of, and experience with, modern C++
• Real-time software development experience such as game, simulation, robotics or embedded development
• Familiarity with 3D reconstruction concepts: projective geometry, bundle adjustment, PnP, triangulation, feature description, image matching
• Experience with building photogrammetry, augmented reality, robotics or visual (inertial) odometry (VIO) solutions
• Experience with 3D Gaussian Splatting or derivatives
• Intuition for transform trees and pose representations used in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics
• Ability to work with quaternions and common spatial math without relying on a pre-made framework
• Hands-on experience calibrating camera intrinsics/extrinsics
• Practical experience with cheap cameras and calibration drift in real-world conditions
• Experience ensuring timestamp integrity and tight time alignment across sensors
• Experience with GPU programming (CUDA, OpenCL) and graphics pipelines (Vulkan, OpenGL)
• Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering

Nice to have

• Experience integrating software on UAVs (onboard constraints, deployment/debugging in flight-test conditions)
• awareness of the zeitgeist in the current 3D vision academic literature

Benefits

• Money
• 25 vacation days per year
• Reimbursed travel expenses
• Company laptop
• Flexible working hours
• Option to work from home 2 days per week when in the Netherlands
• Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions
• Opportunity to take technical risks
• Responsibility over the things you implement
• Traveling abroad to test the solutions you built

Before you apply

• WE CANNOT PROVIDE VISA SPONSORSHIP
• If we see a potential fit, you’ll first receive a short follow-up questionnaire
• Based on your answers, we’ll invite you for a technical interview

About the company

Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up that develops and deploys software for on-board UAV 3D vision in military applications.