Navigation & Visual Perception Engineer - UAS Autonomous Systems

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**Location:** Madrid, MD, ES **\#job\-location.job\-location\-inline { display:** inline; } **Professional Profile:** Software Development \- Emerging Languages **Required Experience:** More than 2 years of experience **Work Mode:** Hybrid Navigation \& Visual Perception Engineer – UAS Autonomous Systems – Lead the future of unmanned aerial systems. San Fernando de Henares (hybrid) At Indra Group, we protect what matters most. Are you passionate about autonomous navigation, computer vision, and sensor fusion in environments where GNSS is not always available? We are seeking a Navigation \& Visual Perception Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate advanced navigation, state estimation, SLAM, and perception algorithms for next-generation UAS platforms and autonomous systems. You will work on mission-critical solutions enabling our systems to localize, orient, perceive their surroundings, and navigate robustly in real time—even in complex, degraded, or GNSS-denied scenarios. What will you do daily? Design advanced navigation and state estimation algorithms Develop sensor fusion algorithms to estimate position, velocity, attitude, and full system pose. Implement robust navigation solutions for dynamic, uncertain, or GNSS-degraded environments. Work with estimation techniques such as Kalman Filter, EKF, UKF, and loosely/tightly coupled fusion architectures. ️ Drive visual navigation systems Develop Visual Odometry, Visual-Inertial Odometry, and Visual SLAM algorithms. Implement real-time localization and mapping capabilities. Design vision-based perception solutions for landmark detection, tracking, recognition, and object classification. Contribute to GNC architectures where visual navigation is a key component. Integrate multiple sensors in real time Fuse data from GNSS, INS/IMU, magnetometers, altimeters, cameras, LiDAR, and RADAR. **You will design multimodal pipelines such as:** GNSS/INS \+ magnetometer. INS \+ altimeter. Visual-Inertial Fusion / VIO. LiDAR-Inertial SLAM. **You will model sensor errors:** IMU bias and noise, hard/soft iron distortions in magnetometers, barometric drift, or AGL estimation using altimeters. ️ Develop SLAM and autonomous perception solutions Implement Visual SLAM, LiDAR SLAM, and Graph-based SLAM algorithms. Work with optimization back-ends based on factor graphs. Optimize solutions for relative localization, real-time mapping, and autonomous navigation. Apply computer vision techniques such as ORB, SIFT, SURF, feature tracking, and real-time object detection. ️ Deploy algorithms onto embedded platforms Integrate software into embedded systems with real-time constraints. Optimize latency, robustness, stability, and computational efficiency. Work with NVIDIA Jetson platforms—especially Orin—deploying vision and AI models at the edge. Optimize inference using CUDA, TensorRT, and efficient CPU/GPU/memory management. Validate solutions in real-world environments Validate algorithms via simulation, SIL/HIL, lab testing, and field or flight trials. Analyze system accuracy, availability, integrity, and robustness. Tune models and algorithms to ensure performance in demanding operational scenarios. ✅ What are we looking for? **Solid experience or knowledge in:** Autonomous navigation and vehicle dynamics. State estimation, probability, and applied statistics. Multi-sensor and multi-rate sensor fusion. Integration of GNSS/INS, magnetometers, altimeters, cameras, LiDAR, or RADAR systems. SLAM, Visual Odometry, VIO, and visual navigation. Computer Vision, robotics, and autonomous perception. Embedded systems and real-time processing. **Key algorithms and technologies:** Kalman Filter, EKF, UKF. Visual SLAM / Visual-Inertial SLAM. LiDAR SLAM. ORB-SLAM or similar frameworks. Factor graphs, GTSAM, Ceres. **Feature detection and tracking:** ORB, SIFT, SURF. Real-time object detection. **YOLO for vision models:** training, validation, deployment, and optimization. ️ Tools and programming C\+\+ and Python. MATLAB / Simulink. SIL/HIL simulation and validation environments. NVIDIA Jetson / Orin platforms. CUDA and TensorRT. Optimization, parallel computing, and real-time systems. Why join us? Because you’ll be part of cutting-edge UAS, autonomous navigation, advanced perception, and intelligent systems projects—developing mission-critical technology for operation in environments where precision, robustness, and real-time performance are essential. If you’re motivated to work at the frontier of sensor fusion, computer vision, SLAM, embedded AI, and autonomous navigation—we want to meet you. ✨ What we offer **Stability and Future ✨:** Long-term projects within a leading defense company employing over 60\.000 professionals, backed by financial security. **Innovative and High-Impact Projects :** You’ll work with state-of-the-art technologies, delivering impact both nationally and internationally. **Close and Transparent Environment :** Enjoy direct, fluid communication with managers and colleagues in a collaborative and open setting. **Autonomy and Flexibility :** Freedom to organize your work, with genuine work-life balance adapted to your pace. **Personalized Career Plan :** Designed to accelerate your professional growth and development. **Continuous Training :** Through Open University and Udemy for Business (over 6\.000 courses for specialization!). **Exclusive Well-being Discounts :** Enjoy benefits at gyms, restaurants, stores, leisure activities, and more as an Indra employee. Fixed compensation \+ flexible compensation plans tailored to your needs. What does our selection process look like? **Profile Review :** We assess your experience and skills to determine alignment with our requirements. **Initial Contact (5\-10 min) :** If you receive a call from an unknown number—it’s our team! A brief conversation to get to know you and address any questions. **Technical Interview :** You’ll meet the team, who’ll explain the project and daily tasks. We’ll also explore your technical expertise—and conduct brief psychological and English assessments (if required). **Interview with Talent Acquisition Team :** We want you to better understand our company: values, career model, skills… so both you and our team can evaluate mutual fit. **Offer and Onboarding :** If everything goes well—you join our team and begin this new chapter together! **Estimated Process Duration:** 2 weeks. As a company, we view equality as a cross-cutting principle and a driver of social change. From this conviction, we reaffirm our commitment to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, non-discrimination, pay equity, and work-life balance. This commitment translates into fostering respectful and inclusive workplaces where all individuals are treated with dignity, can advance professionally, and enjoy equal opportunities in recruitment, training, and promotion processes—ensuring a workplace free from discrimination based on gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity, marital status, or any other personal or social circumstance. ¡INDRA is Top Employer 2026! Join a company certified as one of Spain’s best employers, thanks to our comprehensive HR management and outstanding conditions for our professionals.