Algorithm Engineer

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Atop builds a multi-drone control platform for safe operations, clear situational awareness, and real-time decision support in dynamic, high-risk environments.

Our tech supports military teams with a safe, easy-to-use operating system, creating impact every day in the field.

• Design, implement, and improve vision-based flight control and autonomy algorithms for production systems
• Develop algorithms running both onboard the aircraft and off-board on companion or ground systems
• Take algorithms from initial concept and simulation through live flight experiments and production deployment
• Collaborate closely with perception pipelines, flight controllers and system engineers, iterating rapidly based on real-world flight data and operational feedback
• Own the full lifecycle of your work, from design and implementation to testing, tuning, deployment and ongoing production improvements.

• Proven experience developing algorithms deployed in production or operational systems
• Strong background in control systems, robotics, autonomy or perception
• Hands-on experience taking algorithms from research into real-world environments
• Practical experience implementing algorithms in Python or C++
• Comfortable working close to hardware, sensors and real-time constraints

• Experience with drones, autonomous vehicles or flight control systems
• Background in visual navigation, perception-driven control, sensor fusion or GNSS-denied navigation
• Experience with simulation-to-real workflows and live flight testing
• Linux development and debugging experience