Senior Software Engineer - Robotics Perception
First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
Who we are :
We are a start-up based out of Bengaluru & Delhi NCR engaged in the development of next-generation missions and technologies (NGM&T) towards future warfare needs of the Indian defense forces. We are undertaking research towards enhancing persistence and autonomy for unmanned vehicles and robotic swarms. Our product development portfolio includes a solar-powered stratospheric high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) unmanned platform and an air/ground-launched stand-off autonomous system.
Role Summary :
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer specializing in robotics perception to build and ship production-grade perception systems for real robots operating in real environments. This role is hands-on, high-ownership, and tightly integrated with autonomy, hardware, and field operations. ROS/ROS2 and prior robotics application experience are mandatory.
What You'll Do :
- Build and ship production perception pipelines deployed on physical robotic systems.
- Develop ROS/ROS2 nodes and distributed systems for real-time perception (publish/subscribe, services, actions, TF).
- Integrate and fuse multi-sensor data (e.g., camera, LiDAR, radar, IMU, GPS) into a reliable environmental model.
- Own perception end-to-end : algorithm choice, implementation, optimization, deployment, and field performance.
- Debug and harden systems where sensor data is noisy, incomplete, and imperfect.
- Partner with autonomy, hardware, and field teams to deploy quickly and iterate based on real-world results.
- Improve runtime performance (latency/throughput), reliability, logging/telemetry, and maintainability.
Must-Have Qualifications :
- 4+ years of experience building real-world software, with meaningful time spent on robotics perception.
- Experience in image processing and 3D point cloud processing, including feature extraction, segmentation, and spatial data analysis.
- Prior robotics application experience is required (robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, etc.).
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Proven record shipping perception and/or sensor fusion capabilities into production or real deployments.
- Solid understanding of real-time constraints, sensor timing/synchronization, and system-level debugging.
- Comfortable making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to meet performance and deployment goals.
- Able to work on-site.
Strongly Preferred :
- Experience with sensor fusion, mapping, object detection/tracking, or multi-object tracking.
- Familiarity with common robotics/perception tooling (e.g., tf2, rosbag, rviz, image_transport, calibration pipelines).
- Experience deploying to edge compute (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson) and optimizing runtime performance.
- Field deployment experience : diagnosing issues from logs, telemetry, and on-robot behavior in messy environments.
- Startup / rapid iteration background.
Skills
Robotics, Python, ROS, Computer Vision, Image Processing, LIDAR, GPS