Computer Vision Engineer - Perception for Autonomy
BrightAI Corporation · Palo Alto, California
Posted 12 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days BrightAI Corporation's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
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- Salary listed
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- Ghost-job risk at BrightAI Corporation
- high 4 stale, 2 reposted of 6 open
- Hiring momentum
- 15 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As a Computer Vision Engineer focused on Perception for Autonomy, you will be responsible for developing and implementing perception systems for drones that inspect infrastructure. Your work will involve reconstruction of scenes from drone imagery, pose and state estimation, and creating simulated environments for training flight behaviors. Collaboration with the autonomy team is key, as you'll ensure that the perception systems effectively support planning and decision-making processes.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 2+ years in computer vision or robotics perception, with systems that ran outside a lab
- Solid multi-view geometry
- Hands-on SLAM, SfM, or visual-inertial odometry
- Strong PyTorch experience
- Experience training and debugging models on field data
- Experience working on a moving platform such as a drone, vehicle, or robot
Nice to have
- Experience with 3DGS or NeRF, especially large outdoor scenes
- Reconstruction-backed simulation for robot training
- Sim-to-real transfer or learned dynamics
- Exposure to ROS/ROS2, PX4/ArduPilot
- C++ experience alongside Python
Worth weighing
- Role involves working with real aircraft and customer sites, which may present unique challenges
- Focus on a small team with high autonomy may require self-motivation and initiative
- No salary or specific benefits mentioned in the posting
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