Shield AI
Staff Deep Learning Engineer, State Estimation (R5785)
$200K–$300K
Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 26, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of related professional work experience with an M.S. degree, or 2+ years with a Ph.D.
- Education
- M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field; Ph.D. is an alternative paired with the stated experience requirement.
About the job
Develops deep-learning components for vision-based navigation so autonomous systems can estimate motion and localize without reliable GPS.
What you'll do
- Develop and evaluate models for visual correspondence, depth, pose estimation, and image-to-map localization, combining learned representations with geometric methods.
- Own data preparation, annotation and reproducible training workflows; evaluate performance, analyze failures, and improve models.
- Integrate learned measurements into navigation systems and support profiling, deployment, and delivery of tested Hivemind SDK components.
What they ask for
- M.S. in a related field and 4+ years of related professional experience, or Ph.D. and 2+ years.
- Hands-on experience designing, training, debugging, and evaluating deep-learning models using PyTorch or an equivalent framework.
- Strong foundations in camera models, coordinate transformations, projective geometry, and multi-view geometry, with practical experience in a related computer-vision field.
- Strong Python skills and experience taking computer-vision capabilities from raw data through training, evaluation, and integration readiness.
Nice to have
- Experience with aerial imagery, geospatial data, elevation maps, or cross-condition or cross-sensor matching.
- Experience with model export, quantization, TensorRT, ONNX, embedded deployment, or physical-platform validation.
Pay
USD 200,000–300,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
PyTorch, Python, TensorRT, ONNX, VIO, SLAM, Structure from Motion (SfM)
AI focus
Develops and evaluates deep-learning models for visual navigation, localization, and geometric estimation, including data and training pipelines and deployment recommendations.
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