# Senior Software Engineer - Calibration, Localization & Mapping

Senior Software Engineer - Calibration Localization and Mapping Location: San Francisco, CA (full time, in-person) Company Overview Our mission is to accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure on Earth while pioneering technologies to enable humanity to build beyond Earth. Starting with the Cosmic-1a system that installs solar panels 10x faster than today’s methods, our goal is to help transition the world to a clean energy future and laying the groundwork for the future of autonomous construction. The Role We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Calibration, Localization, and Mapping to lead the design, development, and implementation of performant and scalable state estimation algorithms that enhance the capabilities of our mobile manipulation robot. In this role, you will take technical ownership of software that fuses data from lidar, inertial sensors, vision, and proprioception to estimate the robot’s ego-motion in its operating environment. You will work across the stack, balancing algorithmic performance, system constraints, and real-world reliability to deliver production-ready perception capabilities. Responsibilities Design, develop, and integrate robust

- **Id**: 4038437
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cosmic-robotics-senior-software-engineer-calibration-localization-mapping>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:56:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T03:49:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3378
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Construction Robotics, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 674500
- **Name**: Cosmic Robotics
- **Domain**: cosmicrobotics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cosmicrobotics>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Gaussian Splatting** — Optional: no
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: no
- **Localization** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T21:27:42Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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