Wayve
Principle Engineer, 3D Reconstruction
Sunnyvale, California USA · Principal · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
PythonC++AlgorithmsMachine LearningData EngineeringComputer VisionRoboticsSensorsResearchLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- The system will draw on localization and mapping, state estimation, and sensor fusion to produce offline 3D geometric reconstructions and best-estimate ego motion from heterogeneous vehicle platforms and sensor suites.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of MVPs that unblock high-priority internal use cases, while guiding the transition to a robust internal platform.
- Partner with calibration, sensor fusion, perception, data, infrastructure, and validation teams to align requirements, resources and ownership boundaries.
- Set technical standards for reconstruction quality, failure analysis, uncertainty measurement, and dataset suitability and execute strategies to validate them
- Experience building offline reconstruction, mapping, or perception systems that operate on large volumes of sensor data.
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in SLAM, 3D reconstruction, mapping, state estimation, or closely related robotics/perception fields.
- Strong hands-on experience with lidar-based reconstruction, point-cloud registration, pose estimation, and real-world robotics sensor data.
- Experience taking research or prototype algorithms into reliable production systems.
- Systems-level understanding of sensor calibration, timing, synchronization and quality issues, and ability to define requirements and work with specialist teams to achieve them
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping, or ground-truth data pipelines in a production setting.
- Experience with GNSS/INS fusion, sensor based odometry, or other high-accuracy position estimation approaches
- Experience with nonlinear optimization techniques such as pose graph optimization, factor graphs, bundle adjustment, ICP etc
Company info
- Establish the core technical interfaces, output representations, and tools needed to support internal customers.
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