GPR, Inc Senior Mapping and Localization Engineer Somerville, MA · Full time Company website

Apply for Senior Mapping and Localization Engineer

WHO YOU ARE + WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop and refine radar and multi-sensor-based mapping and localization algorithms for autonomous vehicle and mobile robotic applications.
• Understand key technical and performance trade-offs for Radar-based Localization.
• Contribute to building the Software stack to run our autonomous vehicle.
• Support our current Autonomous Vehicle stack, and the interface with our localization.
• You’re comfortable thinking about the big picture and the small details. You enjoy making design and algorithmic decisions.
• Rapidly prototype to test and discard hypotheses.
• A “get-it-done” person. You know that done is better than perfect and are energized by constantly delivering and moving things forward.
• Enjoy working with small, high output teams in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience designing and developing, localization and mapping algorithms(SLAM, Visual Odometry, Global Retrieval, Feature Matching, etc).
• Experience working with multiple sensor modalities like Radar, camera, lidar, IMU etc.
• Mathematical fundamentals in Linear Algebra, Vector calculus, Probabilistic theory, and Mathematical Optimization along with relevant implementation experience.
• Prior experience in any of pose estimation, probabilistic filtering, SLAM, nonlinear optimization or similar robotics fields.
• 3 years or more experience working in applied Localization for Robotics/AV.
• Excellent C++ skills and experience with production software.
• This a hybrid role and the candidate is expected to be on-site 4 days a week.

NICE TO HAVE

• PhD or Masters in an autonomous vehicle mapping, localization, or sensor fusion related field or equivalent experience and knowledge.
• Experience with Real-Time application in resource constrained computing environments
• Experience working with radar data
• Expertise in Optimization Frameworks (g2o, CERES, iSAM,etc)
• Experience with ROS1/ROS2 or AV stacks

WORK

• All applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
• Must be able to work from our Somerville, MA office 4 times a week.