Software Engineer - Mapping and Localization
Build mapping and localization software for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots across embedded automotive systems and cloud infrastructure. The role requires a master's degree, 3+ years of relevant experience, and expertise in C++ and/or Python.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement mapping and localization solutions tailored to autonomous-driving use cases, running on embedded ECUs and in the cloud.
- Implement runtime-efficient in-vehicle software on automotive SoCs.
- Build backend infrastructure for building, storing, and processing maps for ADAS/AD production functions and ML model training.
- Apply automated techniques to generate maps from raw data, using and improving internal tools for viewing and editing maps.
Requirements
- Master's degree in mapping, localization, or a closely related field.
- 3+ years of experience building software components or subsystems addressing real-world mapping and localization challenges.
- Hands-on experience with more than one relevant software framework or tool, such as middleware, benchmarking suites, datasets and pipelines, or algorithmic libraries.
- Deep understanding of localization concepts, world representations and transforms, mapping and localization intersections, and error analysis and characterization.
- Knowledge of analyzing and comparing hardware solutions for localization.
- Expertise in C++ and/or Python.
Nice-to-haves
- PhD in mapping, localization, or a closely related field.
- Hands-on expertise in SLAM, probabilistic filtering, nonlinear optimization, computational geometry, numerical analysis, or distributed systems.
- Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks.
- Experience developing on automotive SoCs and middleware.
Benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation per year.
- Daily meal benefits, including €19 lunch and dinner budgets, plus free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office.
- €965 annual learning and development budget.
- €580 annual fitness budget.
- Subsidized Wellpass membership.
- €25 monthly contribution to the Deutschlandticket.
- Generous parental leave in addition to statutory parental leave.
Skills
C++, Python, Slam, Probabilistic Filtering, Nonlinear Optimization, Computational Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Distributed Systems, Automotive Socs, Middleware, Adas, Map Processing, Cloud Infrastructure, Embedded Systems
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