Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
What we’re looking for
Vantage robotics is looking for a software engineer to help develop our camera, vision, and imaging pipeline software to be used in products that improve national security and save livesWork on cutting edge robotic systems with a small, highly talented team at a venture-backed startupA rare opportunity to work through an end-to-end solution which explores the limits of size, weight, and power in a flying robotic systemVantage is growing, and while you may spend the majority of your time writing code, there is ample opportunity for leadership and process definition.
Skills and qualifications
Minimum of 5 years writing code.
Bs and/or ms/phd in computer science preferred.
Know how to write rock-solid c / c++ code with modern c++ 14+ features.
Experience with resource constrained environments with performance deadlines required, you must think about and love optimization.
Preferred computer vision experience, monocular depth pipeline development experience a plus.
Board support package (bsp) development.
Experience interfacing with external hardware over a variety of serial interfaces.
Qualcomm snapdragon development preferred.
Experience managing local and remote teams in a startup environment.
Experience developing code in resource constrained environments a plus.
Experience with yocto preferred.
Ability to work closely with our robotics team to facilitate computer vision and perception applications.
Demonstrated passion for flying cameras, photography and/or video preferred.
Compensation
We offer competitive salary and equity, a satisfying and fast-paced work environment, talented co-workers, and a product you will be proud to be involved with.
About the company
Vantage makes uavs and uav components for customers including the us army, a big three automaker, cnn, flir, the us air force, and stanford universityOur first product, snap, achieved a landmark faa waiver for commercial flight over peopleOur second product, vesper, was one of five products selected by the pentagon for use by the federal governmentWe’re currently making the next generation micro drone for the us army’s $100m soldier borne sensor program and a family of modular micro-gimbals as part of the pentagon’s blue uas program.
The company won richard branson`s extreme tech challenge and has been recognized by techcrunch, the wall street journal, cnn, wired, quartz, and usa today, amongst many othersVantage has been awarded over $10m in r&d contracts over the last two years and raised $11m in venture fundingThe company has strong backing from vcs who previously backed twitter and zoom, the founder of insitu, and the pentagon’s defense innovation unitWe are a team of stanford engineers, darpa grand challenge winners, ideo and volkswagen alums, nasa roboticists, 3d printer designers, and pioneering software developersWe`re also ardent kite surfers, mountain bikers, professional rock climbers, competitive dancers, surfers, and award winning pilotsWe work to achieve ambitious goals, but also to achieve meaningful lives.
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