Senior Event-Based Robotics Research Engineer — VIO & Motion Estimation

About Promethion Industries

Promethion Industries is a European defence technology company building autonomous supremacy systems for aerial and multi-domain operations. We design tightly integrated autonomy stacks in Europe to enable decisive autonomy for NATO-aligned forces, focusing on defensive and counter-system capabilities including anti-UAS and resilient autonomy under contested conditions.

Your mission with us

• Develop event-based VIO and motion-estimation approaches for high-speed aerial robotics.

• Explore asynchronous optical flow, event-IMU fusion and direct velocity estimation.

• Develop continuous-time estimation approaches suitable for high-rate asynchronous sensing.

• Evaluate event-based methods for GNSS-denied and high-dynamic flight.

• Build and validate hybrid frame + event + IMU estimators.

• Investigate velocity-space estimation for terminal high-dynamic operation.

• Characterize failure modes including scale drift, low texture, sensor mismatch and high angular rates.

• Port promising research onto embedded compute and evaluate real latency and resource requirements.

• Work directly with the core state-estimation team to transition validated approaches into the main stack.

The offboarding work specifically highlights event+IMU fusion, direct velocity estimation and event-based high-speed state estimation, alongside concrete concerns around scale drift and embedded compute limits. Neuromorphic VIO and OF (1)

Your contribution to the team (required)

• Strong research or engineering background in VIO, visual odometry, SLAM or state estimation.

• Experience with event cameras or asynchronous sensing.

• Strong understanding of IMU fusion and nonlinear estimation.

• Strong C++ skills.

• Experience implementing research algorithms on real hardware.

• Strong understanding of sensor timing, calibration and high-rate data processing.

• Ability to work from academic literature to reproducible real-world implementation.

Even if you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply - we’d love to hear from you.