You will design, integrate and maintain solutions to localization and mapping subsystems for autonomous platforms operating in complex outdoor environments. You will be responsible for helping vehicles understand where they are in the world and for constructing frameworks by which vehicles can collectively share information about the world with each other.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain real-time estimation software for localization and mapping of an autonomous vehicle
• Analyze large datasets and work with raw sensor data
• Automate the detection of changes to previously generated maps
• Manage tiling building, and intelligent deployment of maps to our fleet
• Balance research, cross-domain resources and product-driven milestones
• Design novel algorithms and produce robust, well-tested code
• Benchmark and validate navigation systems
• Scale your solutions from prototypes to a large fleet of deployed systems

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of relevant industry experience
• Highly skilled in vehicle state estimation and vehicle dynamics modeling
• Experience with pose estimation techniques (homography, structure from motion, VIO, etc.)
• Experience with real-time sensor fusion techniques including probabilistic filters such as EKF / UKF
• Experience with various hardware sensor types and modalities (eg. IMU, lidar, mono cameras, stereo cameras, event cameras, gps, odometry, radar, ultrasonic, etc.)
• Experience with lidar point cloud registration and geometric computer vision
• Experience with C++ programming operating on Linux, with modern tool chains and development work practices
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) required

Bonus points

• Experience with autonomous robots
• Experience with real-time sensor calibration and sensor misalignment algorithms
• Experience with techniques or applications for nonlinear optimization (e.g., nonlinear least squares, bundle adjustment, pose graph optimization)

A bit about us

Postmates is changing delivery for good. While you may know us as the clever brand loved by celebrities and millennials, we are so much more. We are industry-first leaders in the modern logistics space, creating groundbreaking tech products that positively impact millions of customers, merchants and gig-economy workers as well as the underserved in the communities where we work. How will you help us change delivery for good?

Benefits

Postmates has your back. In our impact-first work environment, we value huge company vision. As you strive to build the future with us, we’ll support you with a competitive rates and equity plan, along with access to our 401k plan and robust benefits including: health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental benefits, and food perks.

Postmates is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants at Postmates are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.