Robotics Engineer Maidenhead, England
Job description
Malloy Aeronautics is an innovative and rapidly growing company that leads the field in medium class heavy lift unmanned air vehicles for civilian and military applications.
We require an experienced engineer to lead projects that push forward the autonomous capabilities of our aircraft.
The ideal candidate will have past experience, at least 2+ years, designing systems and implementing hardware and software designs that enable machines to operate in unconstrained environments with little to know operator support.
You will be working on the development of numerous capabilities on our vehicles including obstacle avoidance, Alt-Nav and novel payload integration. Developing machine autonomy that delivers value to our customers.
You will be working in close contact with suppliers of autonomous system to integrate their capability into our vehicles. Also leading the internal development of our own systems with support from mechanical, electrical and flight test engineers to get your designs off the ground.
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- Generation of innovative ideas to address technical challenges in mapping, localization, object detection and classification, behavior and trajectory prediction
- Design and implement safety-critical control algorithms for full self-driving vehicles
- Analyse data from simulation and real-world testing to evaluate and refine system performance
- Correct complex issues involving software components distributed across multiple processors interacting with sensors and physical actuators
- Lead the integration of 3rd party sensor, communication and actuator systems onto vehicles
- Leading the flight testing of new autonomous features
- Experience and interest in operating unmanned systems
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in an applicable engineering field, or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of practical cross-platform software engineering experience with C++ or python
- Experience with autonomous systems in one or more of the following areas: 3D environment reconstruction, tracking and prediction, perception, localization, estimation, and machine learning
- Experience working on real-world robot systems in a lab or in industry.
- Understand general software development processes
- Integration of 3rd party sensor systems
- Experience with low bandwidth communications protocols and suitable hardware
BENEFITS:
- Salary negotiable and dependant on skill levels and experience
- Company Pension scheme plus insurance benefits
- Free lunch on working Friday
- Casual dress
- On-site Free parking
- Company 24-hour healthcare support line
- Three-day long weekend every fortnight (Fri-Sun)
- Freshly cooked all you can eat meat and vegetarian lunch on Friday
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000.00-£65,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Maidenhead: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Work Location: In person
