Perception & Algorithms Engineer

Furientis is developing cost-effective, high-production-rate interceptor missiles. The Perception & Algorithms Engineer will research, implement, optimize, and validate seeker perception and estimation algorithms, carrying them from prototype into flight while meeting embedded hardware latency constraints.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement object detection algorithms for mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) imagery, robust to clutter, domain shift, and countermeasures
• Develop multi-object tracking and state estimation: filtering, data association, and line-of-sight estimates for missile guidance
• Implement track lifecycle management: initialization, maintenance, confirmation, and termination under real sensor conditions
• Develop segmentation, classification, and discrimination algorithms that separate targets from decoys, debris, and background
• Develop aimpoint localization and the associated image-processing methods that support terminal accuracy
• Contribute to perception-related sensor fusion, combining IR and X-band radar measurements into a consistent track picture
• Implement, optimize, and validate your algorithms for real-time flight: measured latency, covariance and confidence you can defend, and performance proven in simulation, in hardware-in-the-loop testing, and in flight data
• Research and prototype advanced AI and ML methods within perception and estimation, and help mature the ones that prove out into the flight pipeline