Rendezvous Robotics
Senior Perception Engineer
$145K–$190K
Golden, Colorado +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Location
- Golden, Colorado
Golden, Colorado, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional perception, state-estimation, or GNC experience is listed as an alternative preferred qualification to a Master's or PhD.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace/electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, or other relevant engineering discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Leads development and flight deployment of relative-navigation perception, sensor-fusion, and state-estimation systems for autonomous spacecraft docking.
What you'll do
- Own relative navigation for proximity operations and docking, including vision, sensor fusion, and the estimator feeding the control loop.
- Develop and verify vision and relative-state estimation algorithms, calibration infrastructure, simulations, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
- Support flight operations, monitor on-orbit navigation performance, and lead anomaly investigations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline, physics, mathematics, or computer science.
- Software development experience in C++ and Python.
- Hands-on experience delivering camera-based pose estimation or multi-sensor fusion on a real robotic or space system.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in robotics, computer vision, or an engineering discipline, or 5+ years of professional perception, state-estimation, or GNC experience.
- Expertise in computer vision for metric pose and sequential estimation.
Pay
USD $145,000.00 - $190,000.00 base salary
Tools
C++, Python, EKF, MEKF, UKF, Git, NIS/NEES, SO(3)
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