Embedded Engineer - Sensing【Autonomous Drone】

Computer Vision, Image Processing | Mobile Robot, Drone, Autonomous Nav | Embedded Software

Location	Chiba-shi, Chiba-ken
Company	A Japanese venture company providing service in infrastructure maintenance and inspection utilizing UAV, as well as digital data management of facilities data. Owns ultra-compact drone developed in-house based on rich track record. Year of foundation: 2016 Number of employees: 60+ Capital: 1.42 billion yen
Job Description	You will be in charge of developing sensing systems (SLAM systems) and navigation systems used by autonomous flying drones. You will be proposing improvements to the autonomous flying drone system currently under development, planning the development schedule, and performing consistent development work from research and development to product development. In addition to the development work, you will also be required to conduct technical research necessary for development. Tasks in specific: - Product review and requirement definition in collaboration with product manager - System design and technology verification of autonomous flying drones - Development of sensing systems using multiple sensors (sensor fusion) - Investigation and verification of new sensing algorithms - Testing with actual equipment and conducting PoC in simulated environment / real site etc.
Requirement	Required: - Experience in developing sensing systems using sensors such as cameras and LiDAR - Experience developing systems using position/velocity measurement algorithms such as SLAM, Visual/LiDAR Odometry - Robotics technology experience that combines hardware and software for robots, autonomous driving, etc. - Basic mathematical knowledge such as linear algebra, differential calculus, and statistics Preferred: - Experience using robot SW frameworks such as ROS - Experience in rebuilding kernels, etc. - Experience developing hard real-time system - Experience using single board computers such as Jetson in professional context - Development experience at venture/startup - Experience in formulating, verifying, and proving hypotheses for new technologies - Experience in improving known theories and implementing mathematical theory on actual machines
English Level	Nice to have
Japanese Level	Business level required
Employment Type	Permanent

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