About the Position

Perception/Computer Vision Engineer

Location: Ottobrunn, Germany

Employment Type: On-site, Full-time

About the Company

Maple Aviation is an innovative aerospace startup dedicated to designing and operating autonomous cargo drones for time-critical medical logistics. Our flagship system, the Maple Octave delivery system, is fully certified, emission-free, and engineered to meet the highest safety standards demanded by hospitals, laboratories, and healthcare networks.

Responsibilities

Precision Landing & Marker Tracking: Develop and improve marker-based landing methods (e.g., ArUco/AprilTag) for precise, autonomous landing on hospital landing pads.
GNSS-Denied Navigation: Build robust state estimation and visual odometry for flight phases with weak or degraded GNSS signal.
Object Detection & 3D Perception: Build object-detection and 3D-geometry pipelines for obstacle and environment awareness.
Sensor Fusion & Calibration: Fuse camera, IMU, and other sensor data into reliable pose and uncertainty estimates.
Edge Deployment: Optimize the perception pipeline for onboard compute on an NVIDIA Jetson.
Validation & Field Testing: Build test and regression pipelines from flight data; debug real mission logs down to root cause.
Integration: Work closely with flight control and hardware to make perception outputs reliable and explainable within overall flight operations.

Requirements

Education: A Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Vision, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience: Practical experience in at least two of the following: VIO, SLAM, object detection, marker-based tracking, or sensor fusion.
Technical Skills:
- Comfortable with C++ and/or Python; experience with Linux-based systems.
- Experience with NVIDIA Jetson or other edge hardware, CUDA.
- Experience with ArUco/AprilTag, multi-camera rigs, fisheye/wide-angle lenses, or monocular depth estimation.
- Experience with ROS/ROS2, MAVLink, Px4, OpenCV, Eigen, or PCL.
Languages: Fluent English; German is a plus.

We Offer

Opportunity to become the technical leader of a breakthrough drone aircraft and delivery system at a decisive stage of company growth.
Competitive benefits including Equity/Stock Options, Wellpass (Fitness, Wellness, Sports), JobRad (Bike Leasing), Team Events, and 30 Days Paid Vacation.

Why Maple Aviation

Certified: Designed to meet EASA and medical-grade requirements.
Emission-free: Fully electric flight, zero direct CO₂ emissions.
Safety-first: Redundant systems and autonomous flight control built for medical cargo.
Fast: Direct point-to-point routes instead of road-bound couriers.
Reliable: Engineered for repeatable daily operations, not one-off demos.

Contact

Maple Aviation GmbH

Maria-Merian-Str. 2

85521 Ottobrunn

Germany

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