Job Overview
Location
Munich / Delft / Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • As a Senior 3D Vision Engineer for Aerial Robotics, you will have broad ownership over core functionalities of Fiducial Scout: our on-board situational awareness software for UAVs. This includes interception detection, collision avoidance, target acquisition, and GNSS-denied visual navigation. You will shape and drive the short-to-medium-term development roadmap. In addition, depending on the project, you may take on the role of Tech Lead, guiding technical direction, coordinating implementation efforts, and ensuring delivery within the scope of a specific project. This is a project-based leadership responsibility within our flat organization, rather than a formal managerial position.
- • You will work on real-time software development for UAV 3D vision systems, including camera calibration, timestamp integrity across sensors, GPU programming, and integration of advanced techniques like 3D Gaussian Splatting. Your work will directly impact flight-tested solutions deployed across Europe in collaboration with drone manufacturers, research institutes, and government agencies.
- • Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up at the frontier of autonomy, perception, and defence. We develop and deploy software for on-board UAV 3D vision in military applications using low-cost, widely available sensors and compute. Our main office is at the TU Delft campus in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, with access to a future Munich office and regular flight testing across Europe.
- • You will deepen your expertise in real-time 3D vision, sensor fusion, and embedded systems while taking technical ownership of complex projects. You’ll have the freedom to implement solutions the ‘right’ way, iterate quickly with tight feedback loops, and gain end-to-end responsibility for features you build — from concept to flight testing in real-world environments.
🎯 Requirements
- • Good understanding of, and experience with, modern C++
- • Real-time software development experience such as game, simulation, robotics or embedded development
- • Second-nature familiarity with 3D reconstruction concepts: projective geometry, bundle adjustment, PnP, triangulation, feature description, image matching
- • Experience with 3D Gaussian Splatting or derivatives
- • Deep intuition for transform trees and pose representations used in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics (e.g., quaternions and spatial math)
- • Hands-on experience calibrating camera intrinsics/extrinsics with cheap cameras and calibration drift in real-world conditions
- • Experience ensuring timestamp integrity and tight time alignment across sensors including diagnosing and correcting time offsets, jitter, dropped frames, and clock sync issues
- • Experience with GPU programming (CUDA, OpenCL) and graphics pipelines (Vulkan, OpenGL)
- • Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering to accelerate effectiveness and codebase ownership
- • Big plus: Experience integrating software on UAVs (onboard constraints, deployment/debugging in flight-test conditions)
- • Big plus: Awareness of the zeitgeist in the current 3D vision academic literature
- • Full time availability (40 hours)
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary (Money, of course)
- • 25 vacation days per year
- • Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop
- • (Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week when in the Netherlands; fully remote with regular travel to Delft and flight testing locations also available
- • Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with amazing technology
- • Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions; project ownership is incredibly important
- • Opportunity to take technical risks, implement stuff the ‘right’ way, and iterate quickly with tight feedback loops
- • Responsibility over the things you implement — you are the expert on what you build
- • Traveling abroad to test the solutions you built in relevant environments
Skills & Technologies
About Fiducial
Fiducial is a global provider of financial, accounting, tax, and business services for small and medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals. Founded in 1970, the company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to support clients at every stage of their business journey. These services include bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation and planning, legal services, business consulting, and IT support. Fiducial aims to simplify business management, allowing clients to focus on their core operations and growth. With a strong presence in the United States and Europe, Fiducial leverages its expertise and technology to deliver personalized and efficient services, fostering long-term client relationships built on trust and reliability.
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