Senior Perception Engineer
Rendezvous Robotics, Golden, Colorado +1
About the job
Today, everything we send to space is constrained by what fits inside a rocket fairing. That's a fundamental bottleneck to building more capable spacecraft. Rendezvous Robotics is solving this problem with electromagnetic self-assembling tiles: modular spacecraft components that rendezvous, dock, and latch to assemble bigger and more powerful spacecraft than anything that can be folded to fit into a rocket.
We're a small team based in Golden, Colorado, executing on a clear path from flight demonstration to our first operational systems. Our work spans hardware, software, and systems engineering. We are looking for the best people in the world who want to build the next generation of advanced spacecraft.
Senior Perception Engineer
Successful electromagnetic docking requires complete autonomy due to fast and unstable electromagnetic dynamics; the timescales are far beyond the bandwidth of a human operator. As a Senior Perception Engineer, you will lead the design and development of the tile’s relative navigation stack: a set of algorithms and sensors that allow tiles to determine their pose and position within the swarm to a very high degree of accuracy. This is a critical capability that enables autonomous electromagnetic docking.