Computer Vision & Navigation Engineer

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I am currently looking for a Software Engineer to join a small and enthusiastic UK team developing market leading UAV systems.

My client is a growing and dynamic company based in Oxfordshire. They are currently designing and building Software/Hardware for two major products. The ideal person will be equally comfortable in hardware and software development skills, although the software skills are more important.

Key Responsibilities:

* Development of sensor processing and navigation algorithms that would allow for the autonomous localisation within known, partially known and unknown environments.

* Algorithms will take advantage of computer vision and therefore experience of camera theory, calibration, detection, optical flow, transformations, homography, tracking, etc. is crucial.

* Development will be done in C/C++ and implemented in real-time on embedded (bare metal, or Linux) platforms.

Key Experience:

* Sensor Processing and Fusion: Camera, Inertial and GNSS

* Knowledge of Camera Systems: Interface types, Video codecs, Pixel formats, Sensor, lens and shutter types, Computer vision theory and techniques

* Localisation and Mapping: GNSS/Inertial and SLAM

* Strong mathematical ability: Pure mathematics, Linear Algebra, Statistics

* C/C++: Embedded, Windows, Linux

* State Observers: Linear (Kalman Filters) and Nonlinear (EKF, UKF, Particle Filter, etc.)

Nice to Have:

* MATLAB/Simulink

* CUDA/OpenCL

* Experience with OpenCV

* Appreciation for Bayesian decision theory

* Appreciation for the dynamics of physical systems

Please send across your most up to date CV and I will be in touch to discuss the position further.

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