GNC Engineer, Tracking Level 2

About the Company

Singularity Defense Corp. is a stealth-mode Aerospace & Defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and top-tier Silicon Valley firms. Our mission is to develop and deploy life-saving missile defense systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time tracking and state estimation algorithms for airborne and autonomous systems
• Develop and maintain multi-target tracking pipelines using camera, IMU, and additional sensor inputs
• Implement filtering and sensor fusion algorithms including EKF, UKF, Particle Filters, and IMM
• Build robust track management systems including initiation, deletion, gating, and data association
• Interface tracking systems with modern computer vision pipelines and detectors
• Optimize algorithms for embedded compute platforms including NVIDIA Jetson-class hardware
• Develop low-latency real-time software in C++ for deployment in operational environments
• Build simulation and replay environments for estimator validation and performance analysis

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or Physics
• Strong experience with state estimation, tracking, or sensor fusion systems
• Strong C++ software engineering experience
• Experience implementing real-time systems on Linux
• Solid understanding of linear algebra, probability, statistics, and kinematics
• Experience with computer vision frameworks such as TensorRT, OpenCV, or PyTorch
• Experience debugging noisy real-world sensor systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with embedded GPU platforms (Jetson Xavier, Orin, CUDA)
• Familiarity with EO/IR sensor systems
• Experience with asynchronous sensor timing and synchronization
• Familiarity with ROS2, GStreamer, or DeepStream pipelines
• Experience with hardware interfaces such as CAN, UART, Ethernet, or MIPI CSI-2
• Prior aerospace, defense, or autonomous systems experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• High ownership and technical autonomy
• Opportunity to work on advanced autonomous systems
• Access to cutting-edge embedded compute and sensing hardware