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Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up with big ambitions at the frontier of autonomy, perception, and defence. We develop and deploy software for on-board UAV autonomy in military applications. Our software solutions are built for scalability first, using low-cost and widely available sensors and compute.
Job Responsibility:
Wide ownership over some of the core capabilities of our autonomous UAV stack
Responsible for guidance, navigation and control (GNC) for interception and collision avoidance maneuvers
Responsible for robust state estimation in noisy sensor environments
Responsible for interfacing with the multitude of flight controller softwares
Responsible for the short-to-medium-term development roadmap
Requirements:
Good understanding of, and experience with, modern C++
Real-time software development experience such as game, simulation, robotics or embedded development
Foundational understanding of fixed-wing and multirotor flight dynamics
Experience implementing and tuning controllers in actual flight vehicles
Experience with state estimation and sensor fusion concepts
Deep intuition for transform trees and pose representations used in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics
Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering
A high degree of autonomy, determination and grit
Full time availability (40 hours)
Nice to have:
Big Plus: experience with higher-level autonomy concepts such as path-planning and trajectory optimization
What we offer:
25 vacation days per year
Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop
(Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week when in the Netherlands
Working in an international, world-class team
Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions