Lead Rover Navigation and Perception Engineer

🕒 August 11

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $142k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Astrolab

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11 - 50 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

Astrolab is pioneering new ways to explore and operate on distant planetary bodies, focusing on the design, construction, and operation of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers. With more than five decades of experience in robotic technologies, electric vehicles, and human spaceflight, Astrolab aims to extend and enhance humanity’s presence in the solar system. The company is based in Hawthorne, California, and emphasizes a strong commitment to its employees and values, aiming to deliver reliable and cost-effective lunar and Mars mobility solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead a small team of engineers to design, characterize, test, verify, and validate localization and perception systems for extraterrestrial rovers • Bring a navigation and perception solution from early design through flight operations on Astrolab’s CLV-1 lunar rover • Work closely with the software team to implement and test navigation, perception, and obstacle avoidance flight software • Ensure extraterrestrial rover navigation and perception solutions are robust, upgradable during flight, and practical • Devise, supervise, and execute navigation and perception system testing with real sensors and flight computers using a test vehicle operating in simulated lunar conditions • Ensure navigation and perception systems meet performance and NASA human-rated spacecraft system requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • 10+ years designing, developing, and testing navigation, localization, and perception systems for rovers, autonomous vehicles, GPS-denied vehicle navigation systems, or similar autonomous or robotic platforms • Experience with practical sensor fusion and Kalman filtering for wheeled vehicle navigation and perception • Experience using sensors with widely different modalities, such as IMU, lidar, radar, and star tracker, to determine robust navigation and perception solutions • Experience designing, tuning, developing, analyzing, characterizing, verifying, and validating navigation and perception solutions for wheeled vehicles • Experience developing, testing, and characterizing obstacle detection and avoidance algorithms for wheeled vehicles • Experience dealing with real-world navigation, localization, and perception issues, including invalid data, dropped packets, data latencies, and blurry images • Experience supporting a navigation/localization system through its entire lifecycle, from early design through live vehicle operations • Experience in C++ and Python programming

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in the company • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support • 401(k) plan with company match • Flexible PTO and parental leave • Home office set up reimbursement • Weekly lunch stipend, plus complimentary snacks and beverages on-site • Once a month social hour on-site with food and drinks • Some travel may be required for this position