# Senior Engineer, Sensor Platform

We are looking for a Senior Engineer, Sensor Platform to join our Perception team in Helsinki. Everything our perception models learn, they learn from what our research vehicles and rigs record. If the sensors are not synchronized, calibrated and trusted, the work downstream stalls. This role owns that platform end to end, from choosing the sensors to the versioned dataset the team trains on. WHY DISTANCE? At Distance Technologies, the problem we're solving is simple to state and hard to solve: the amount of data in the world is endless, but human capacity is not. We are building a fundamentally new perception layer between humans and machines, transforming transparent surfaces into interfaces unlike the world has ever seen. Think of the windscreen of a car, the visor of a helmet, or a sight device, each becoming a new front-end for AI. The way we turn bits and atoms into expanded human perception is protected by over 50 granted international patent families. We build it for two demanding worlds: defense and automotive. And we build it from a single foundation fusing software, hardware and computational optics. There are over 50 of us today, with decade-long experience building wor

- **Id**: 1231955
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/distance-technologies-senior-engineer-sensor-platform>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Helsinki, Finland
- **Countries**: FI
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T12:17:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T07:32:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6015
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: AR & VR Software, Virtual & Augmented Reality

## Company

- **Id**: 1889259
- **Name**: Distance Technologies
- **Domain**: distance.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/distance-tech>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 48000
- **Max usd**: 108000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 8444

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ROS2** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T15:17:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.527
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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