Perception Engineer

🕒 March 2

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Merlin Labs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚗 Transport

Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Transport

Merlin Labs is a company focused on developing autonomous flight capabilities through its innovative Merlin Pilot technology. They aim to deliver reduced aircrew and uncrewed flight solutions for various aircraft, including the C-130J Super Hercules, KC-135 Stratotanker, and F-16. Merlin Labs employs advanced automation systems, sensor technology, and natural language processing to enable full takeoff to touchdown flights, navigate environments, and communicate effectively with air traffic control. Their mission involves creating a non-human pilot that mimics human pilot skills, enhancing both military and civilian aviation sectors. With a strong emphasis on testing and certification, Merlin Labs is at the forefront of autonomous aviation development.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and integrate onboard and off-board airborne perception capabilities to enable autonomous flight and decision making. • Work closely with the R&D software engineering manager to understand team objectives, short term milestones, long term milestones, and technology roadmap. • Support architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis for perception subsystems. • Drive sensor, integration, and algorithm approaches for perception subsystems. • Establish and maintain infrastructure and processes to support development, testing, and evaluation of traditional and machine learning based algorithms. • Collaborate closely with the rest of the R&D software team throughout the research, design, implement, and test cycle. • Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards as needed. • Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject. • 5+ years of professional experience developing perception software for physical systems such as aircraft, robotics, or medical devices. • Subject matter expert in the field of perception: detection, processing, and tracking using cameras, radar, LIDAR, and/or other relevant sensor types. • Experience developing sensor fusion algorithms. • Experience implementing machine learning based perception and planning algorithms, including using deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques. • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, OpenCV. • Experience with Linux and open-source development tools. • Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, and unit testing, and peer review. • Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at the system level as well as at the software component level. • Proficiency writing both Python and C++. • Familiarity with simulation software.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Unlimited vacation • 401k with match • Professional development opportunities