Perception Simulation Engineer II/III

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build high-fidelity RGB and long-wave IR (thermal) camera models in Unreal Engine, and render both views from platform-mounted cameras.
• Tune simulated camera output to match (or closely approximate) real-world camera performance — FOV, resolution, framerate, thermal response — driven by the specs of the sensors we actually fly (e.g.
• Implement realistic sensor noise, artifacts, motion blur, and failure modes so perception software is tested against hard cases, not clean renders.
• Support camera articulation independent of vehicle orientation (gimbal/boresight), so control-envelope requirements can be derived directly from camera specs.
• Publish simulated camera imagery and sensor data onto ROS 2 topics using the shared strive_msgs / strive_interfaces contracts, so the same interface serves sim and hardware.
• Implement and test developer contracts and fulfill deterministic simulation requirements.
• Feed the perception pipeline and downstream Target State Estimation (TSE) with simulated sensor streams and ground-truth labels for evaluation.
• Build synthetic-data generation and export pipelines (imagery + bounding boxes / segmentation / range + pose ground truth) suitable for training and evaluating detection, tracking, and TSE models.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Game Development, or related field — equivalent industry experience welcome.
• 3–6+ years developing in Unreal Engine with C++ , including custom plugins/modules.
• Working knowledge of ROS 2 and integrating it with a simulation environment.
• Solid grounding in 3D graphics, real-time rendering, and camera/sensor models — projection, FOV, framerate, noise, and how they affect a downstream vision algorithm.
• Practical understanding of camera-based perception (detection/tracking) and what makes synthetic imagery useful (or useless) for developing it.
• Comfortable with software architecture, design patterns, and collaborative version-control workflows.