About Promethion Industries
Promethion Industries is a European defence technology company building autonomous supremacy systems for aerial and multi-domain operations. Our mission is to enable decisive autonomy for NATO-aligned forces through tightly integrated autonomy stacks designed and built in Europe. Our focus is defensive and counter-system capabilities, including anti-UAS and resilient autonomy under contested conditions.
We are looking for aSenior Robotics Engineer - State Estimation, VIO & Sensor Fusion
to build the estimation backbone that allows our aircraft to understand their own motion without depending on GNSS.Your mission with us
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Build the state-estimation and sensor-fusion backbone of our autonomous aerial systems.
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Develop robust vehicle-state estimation for high-dynamic flight and GNSS-degraded or GNSS-denied environments.
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Fuse IMUs, cameras, optical flow, airspeed, GNSS, barometers and other sensors into reliable low-latency estimates.
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Develop, integrate and deploy VIO, visual odometry, ego-motion optical flow and inertial-estimation approaches.
- Own temporal calibration, sensor synchronisation, coordinate frames and estimator consistency.
- Diagnose drift, bias, observability and timing problems from first principles.
- Work directly with real flight logs and hardware to reproduce estimator failures and rapidly improve performance.
- Build graceful degradation when individual sensors become unreliable or unavailable.
- Quantify estimator uncertainty and expose meaningful confidence and health information to downstream autonomy and control systems.
- Evaluate alternative estimation architectures including direct velocity estimation and continuous-time approaches where they provide advantages at high dynamics.
Your contribution to the team (required)
- Strong practical experience in robotics state estimation, localization or inertial estimation.
- Deep understanding of IMU-based estimation and multi-sensor fusion.
- Strong experience with EKF, error-state filtering or comparable nonlinear-estimation techniques.
- Practical experience with VIO, visual odometry, optical flow or closely related systems.
- Strong understanding of rigid-body transformations and coordinate frames.
- Strong C++ skills.
- Experience deploying estimators onto real robots or vehicles.
- Strong understanding of sensor calibration and time synchronization.
- Experience analyzing raw sensor data, logs and estimator performance.
- Ability to work with high-rate, noisy and imperfect real-world measurements.
- High-speed UAV or fixed-wing experience.
- GNSS-denied flight.
- PX4 estimator experience.
- ROS2.
- GTSAM / Ceres / Eigen.
- Event-camera VIO or optical flow.
- Continuous-time estimation.
- Radar-aided or RF-aided estimation.
- Air-data integration.
- Aviation, defence, autonomous vehicles or space systems.
Even if you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply - we’d love to hear from you.
