Seeking a geospatial software engineer to collaborate closely with computer vision researchers to implement a state-of-the-art gps-free navigation system that utilizes the position of celestial bodies, landmarks, roads and water features to localize the position of an aircraft and plan safe routes.
Requirements:
- 10 years experience in writing production grade software in C++
- 10 years software engineering experience in online planet scale mapping and localization systems (digital elevation models, water, roads and POI features, GPS)
- 5 years software engineering experience in planet scale geographic information retrieval
- 3 years tech-lead and management experience
- experience with quality evaluation metrics
- practical experience in celestial navigation
- pilotage experience, either nautical or aeronautical
- strong mathematics foundation for collaborating closely with computer vision experts: linear algebra, group theory, optimization, graph theory