--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Localization at AeroVect' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-localization-aerovect-remote-z2zk0f9t8359' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-26' --- # Staff Software Engineer, Localization at AeroVect - **Company:** AeroVect - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aerovect/a18dc934-4a3a-4067-96a4-a969f40b9360 ## Job description ## Who We Are AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit [www.aerovect.com](http://www.aerovect.com). We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Localization team and own significant parts of our localization, mapping, and calibration stack as we scale autonomous ground operations across major airports. You'll take deep ownership of specific workstreams, contribute to the team's technical direction, and partner across the perception, planning, and platform interfaces to help drive the autonomous system from supervised operation to driverless. You'll work alongside the team's senior localization engineers. You Will - Take ownership of one or more core areas of the localization stack (LiDAR-inertial-GNSS state estimation, 3D mapping and map maintenance, or sensor calibration) and drive it to production reliability on real hardware at active airports - Contribute across the broader localization and mapping pipeline from sensor integration, performance tuning, regression testing, and deployment to new operating environments - Help design and build online validation that monitors localization integrity and cross-sensor consistency during live missions, detects drift, and integrates with the vehicle's safety architecture - Develop tooling for diagnostics, health logging, and post-mission analysis across the stack - Contribute to the regression, validation, and release-gating approach for localization changes deployed to active airports - Deploy, test, and iterate using data from real autonomous operations You Have - 8+ years in robotics or autonomous vehicles, with a track record of owning localization or state-estimation systems through production deployment on real hardware - Deep practical grounding in multi-sensor fusion and state estimation across LiDAR, IMU, GNSS, and cameras - Demonstrated technical leadership - driving architecture across teams, setting direction, and being the person others escalate to on hard estimation problems - Strong command of non-linear optimization (Ceres, GTSAM, g2o) and/or filtering (EKF, UKF), with the judgment to know when each applies - Strong modern C++ (C++17+) and deep working experience with Linux and ROS/ROS2 - Understanding of how calibration quality propagates through localization and perception, and how localization errors propagate into the safety case - BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field We Prefer - MS or PhD with a focus on localization, state estimation, or calibration - Hands-on experience with multi-sensor calibration - intrinsic, extrinsic, and temporal - Experience with factor graphs, graph-based SLAM, or open-source tools like GLIM, LIO-SAM, Cartographer, Kalibr, Ceres, GTSAM - Experience building online/runtime monitoring and defining safety-relevant thresholds within a safety monitoring architecture - Track record of taking an autonomous system toward driverless operation ## About AeroVect ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AeroVect provides AI-powered autonomous ground support equipment (GSE) solutions to automate airside logistics for the world's largest airlines and airports. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Raymond Wang and Eugenio Donati ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Aviation logistics and autonomous vehicle technology (Airside Automation) - **Target Customers**: Large airlines, ground handling companies, and airports (Enterprise B2B) - **Mission/Purpose**: To enable unprecedented safety, reliability, and operational certainty in global aviation by deploying AI-powered autonomous ground support equipment. ## Products & Services - **[AeroVect Driver™]**: An AI-powered, self-driving system for Ground Support Equipment (GSE). It is trained on the world's largest airside driving dataset, provides 360° total awareness, and is designed to reduce human error, prevent costly incidents (e.g., collisions), and maximize asset uptime. It is currently deployed in live production operations. Type: Enterprise AI/Software + Hardware. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available. - **Key Metric**: - **Total Funding**: $20.0M (as of Series A, Oct 2024) - **Latest Round**: $18.0M Series A (Oct 2024) led by Nava Ventures. - **Employee Growth**: 56 employees (+62.5% YoY), with a large uptick in active job postings (156). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nava Ventures (Lead Series A), Outsiders Fund, Flybridge Capital, Graphene Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Future Back Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - **Rapid Hiring**: 156 active job postings, a **+1318.2% YoY** increase, indicating a major scaling phase. - **Proven Deployment**: Has logged the "most miles driven in live production operations" and handled tens of thousands of aircraft crossings. - **Global Presence**: Offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Atlanta, Toronto, and Frankfurt, with operations across 5 countries including the UK and Greece. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain-Specific Platform**: Unlike general autonomy companies, AeroVect builds exclusively for the aviation airside environment, giving them a deep moat in a highly regulated, niche market with high barriers to entry. - **Production-Proven Tech**: Claims the "most miles driven in live production operations" and a proven safety record with tens of thousands of real-world aircraft crossings, offering a significant reliability advantage over competitors still in testing. - **Proprietary Dataset**: Trained on the world's largest airside driving dataset, which is a difficult-to-replicate asset. - **Clear ROI for Customers**: Directly addresses labor shortages with cost predictability, reduces insurance/accident risks, and unlocks operational efficiency (cost efficiency, safety, scale). ## Strategic Focus - **Scale & Deployment**: Moving from pilot to widespread commercial deployment, as evidenced by the massive surge in hiring for deployment and engineering roles. - **Expansion**: Growing physical presence in key aviation hubs (Frankfurt, Toronto, New York). - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring top engineering (Perception, Localization, Safety), operations, and product talent to accelerate product development and global rollout. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Work**: Employees see their technology directly supporting mission-critical operations at major international airports. - **Strong Growth Trajectory**: Joining a well-funded startup (Series A) that is in a massive hiring spree (+1300% YoY in job postings) offers significant career growth potential and project ownership. - **Culture**: Described by employees as a supportive family-like environment that aims high and pushes boundaries. The company emphasizes "significant project ownership from day one." - **Perks & Benefits**: - **Equity for all employees** - Flexible PTO (Flexible vacation) & Paid holidays - Medical coverage - Meals & snacks (in office) - **Global impact** - opportunity to travel to deploy technology at sites around the world. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid/Office presence likely required given the nature of the hardware/software deployment, with multiple office locations in the US, Canada, and Europe. ## Sources 1. [aerovect.com](https://www.aerovect.com/company) 2. [aerovect.com](https://www.aerovect.com/) 3. [aerovect.com](https://www.aerovect.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aerovect) 5. 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