{"id":1672632,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mecka-online-calibration-slam-engineer","title":"Online Calibration & SLAM Engineer","company":{"id":678757,"name":"Mecka","domain":"mecka.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/mecka","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":30,"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"}},"role":"Robotics","role_family":"Robotics","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Toronto, Canada","New York, United States"],"countries":["CA","US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":230000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":161145},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Embodied AI","optional":false},{"name":"Gradio","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Visual-Inertial Odometry","optional":false},{"name":"C","optional":true},{"name":"Ceres Solver","optional":true},{"name":"COLMAP","optional":true},{"name":"FFmpeg","optional":true},{"name":"GTSAM","optional":true},{"name":"OpenCV","optional":true},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T23:08:17Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T09:42:11Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":28,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":28},"description":"About Mecka AI\nMecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.\nWe design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.\nWe work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a hands-on Senior SLAM & Calibration Engineer to own how Mecka's devices stay calibrated after they leave the factory. Cameras and IMUs drift over months and mounts warp, so a device that shipped in spec can fall out of it. You'll build the systems that catch and correct that drift: online (in-pipeline) camera calibration, video-based calibration refinement, fleet-wide drift monitoring, and the tools operations and researchers use to track it, all built on solid SLAM/VIO foundations.\nThis is a production role, not pure research: you'll own systems that run across the real fleet. You'll work directly with the CVML team and coordinate with our factory-calibration engineer and hardware team. Because the work runs on real, hardware-synced recordings and is validated on physical devices, this is an on-site role with periodic travel to our hardware site.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn online calibration: Develop and maintain continuous, in-pipeline camera calibration that refines extrinsics from recorded, hardware-synced, uncompressed video and IMU - the pipeline equivalent of on-device calibration, so fixes ship without a device software update.\n\nRebuild video-based calibration: Fix and harden the video-based calibration refinement system across the fleet, including the monocular wrist-cam path, and drive it against real benchmarks.\n\nMonitor the fleet: Build the monitoring and metrics tracking that detects calibration drift across every device, flags devices for recall, and owns the calibration database and version history.\n\nMake SLAM carry calibration: Maintain and improve the SLAM/VIO that online calibration rides on, and have it emit calibration-related error as a first-class output.\n\nBridge to hardware: Coordinate with the factory-calibration engineer and the China hardware team on the intrinsics limit (online refinement fixes extrinsics; intrinsics need a marker at the factory), IMU noise and bias parameters, temporal synchronization, and validation runs that avoid local minima.\n\nBuild the tooling: Ship interactive tools (Rerun / Gradio) that visualize trajectories, drift over time, reprojection error, and per-device calibration metrics for operations and researchers.\n\nWhat You Bring\n Must-have:\nSLAM / VIO / SfM depth: 5+ years of hands-on experience building, maintaining, or improving SLAM, visual-inertial odometry, and Structure-from-Motion pipelines, including systems running in production.\n\nContinuous and multi-sensor calibration: Hands-on experience with online or continuous calibration and rigorous camera + IMU calibration: extrinsics, intrinsics and their limits, IMU noise density and random-walk bias, lens-distortion models, and temporal synchronization.\n\nFleet and data-quality mindset: You're comfortable owning calibration across many noisy, real-world devices, and you build the monitoring that catches drift before customers do.\n\nMulti-view geometry and optimization: An intuitive grasp of the linear algebra, optimization, and first principles behind spatial tracking.\n\nEngineering rigor: Clean, efficient, scalable C++ and Python.\n\nCross-border collaboration: You can specify calibration requirements clearly to a hardware team across time zones.\n\nNice-to-have:\nMarkerless calibration: Experience with video-based or markerless calibration and refinement systems.\n\nCalibration frameworks: Sensor-fusion and calibration tools such as Kalibr, GTSAM, or Ceres Solver.\n\n3D vision and ML libraries: OpenCV, COLMAP, PyTorch, and FFmpeg.\n\nFleet observability: Monitoring at scale, including calibration databases and versioning.\n\nSpatial tooling: Rerun, Gradio dashboards, or trajectory and dataset browsers.\n\nScale: ML infrastructure or data pipelines that operate at scale.\n\nA Note on Applying\nStudies show women and candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they meet 100% of the listed qualifications, while others apply after meeting 60%. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.\nInclusive Hiring at Mecka\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience. Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation. Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category. Mecka is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering a culture of inclusivity and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.\nUse of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment\nMecka uses artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to support administrative and efficiency-focused aspects of our recruitment process. This includes activities such as drafting job descriptions, generating interview questions, note-taking and recordings, and supporting sourcing and scheduling workflows. All candidate evaluations, interviews, and hiring decisions are made by members of the Mecka team. While AI tools may assist with screening and assessment, they do not replace human judgment in selection decisions. Our use of AI is intended to streamline routine tasks, improve consistency, and enhance the overall candidate experience. We are committed to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability in all hiring activities. 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