SLAM Engineer

Research Integration & Evaluation

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Significant hands-on experience developing or substantially improving a real-time visual-inertial odometry or VI-SLAM system, with a strong emphasis on camera-based pipelines.
• Strong C++ (modern, performance-aware) and Python (tooling, prototyping, ML work).
• Deep working knowledge of multiview geometry, nonlinear estimation, inertial sensing, and the practical failure modes of real-time tracking on resource-constrained devices.
• Real experience with sensor calibration on real hardware.
• Ability to read the deep learning literature critically and openness to integrating learned components over time.
• Willingness to work on-site in Columbia, MD, in a hybrid capacity.
• Meet Quidient, customer, and government security requirements, which may include, but are not limited to a background check, citizenship verification, and Criminal Justice Information Services verification.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile SLAM or VIO on iOS or Android (iPhone strongly preferred). Familiarity with constrained-system development including ARM, threading, memory profiling, and power-aware design.
• Direct GPU programming experience — Metal shaders, CUDA kernels, or GPU compute APIs — for offloading SLAM or vision workloads on mobile hardware.
• Experience with multi-camera and multi-sensor fusion (RGB, depth, IMU) in a mobile or embedded context.
• Track record of shipping SLAM or visual odometry systems in production on mobile or embedded platforms.
• Contributor to open-source SLAM or VIO projects (OpenVINS, ORB-SLAM, VINS-Mono, or similar).

Compensation:

• Salary Range: $175,000 - $230,000.
• Annual bonus and equity as appropriate.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• HSA
• 401(k) with company match
• Life & disability insurance
• Paid holidays & generous PTO
• Opportunities for bonuses, equity, and career growth

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement