Wardstone is looking to solve the problem of developing a sensing system for real-time target tracking, which is central to their mission of guiding interceptors.
Requirements
- Strong experience with IR/EO camera systems, Radar, imaging physics, calibration, and noise modeling.
- Deep proficiency in computer vision (OpenCV, NumPy, SciPy, C++/Python).
- Experience implementing real-time detection and tracking algorithms.
- Understanding of signal processing, filtering, sensor fusion, and coordinate transforms.
- Hands-on testing experience using thermal cameras, radar, calibration targets, or optical equipment.
- Experience working with LWIR sensors (FLIR Boson/Tau, ULIS, Teledyne, etc.) or Radar Units.
- Experience with GPU acceleration (CUDA, TensorRT), embedded systems, or FPGA-based vision pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Integrate sensor modules into avionics architecture.
- Own sensor selection, FOV analysis, lensing, NUC, calibration workflows, and driver integration.
- Develop high-reliability camera interfaces: SPI/I2C, MIPI, USB3, Ethernet, GMSL, or custom buses.
- Build perception pipelines capable of tracking high-speed objects with extremely low latency.
- Implement target detection, centroid extraction, filtering, gating, and motion-compensation algorithms.
- Fuse IR/EO data with IMU, GPS, and onboard state estimators.
- Design sensor test rigs: hot/cold targets, blackbody references, collimators, high-G mounts.
Other
- B.S. in EE, CS, Physics, Robotics, or similar.
- US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
- Work directly with founders, build test rigs, run high-speed experiments, and ship perception systems into hardware that performs real intercepts.
- Collect, label, and analyze high-speed footage from ground+flight experiments, HAB flights, and tracking tests.
- Stress-test perception under temperature, vibration, and shock conditions.
