About us DroneOps is a company creating innovative UAV-related products, focused on UAV autonomy and navigation, founded in 2023. We are a team of innovators and inventors who take on the duty to help the armed forces of Ukraine defend our country and democracy by providing reliable advanced systems that simplify their work, improve personnel safety, and enable more cost-effective and precise UAV mission execution. Overview We are looking for a Middle / Senior Computer Vision / Deep Learning Engineer to extend our onboard navigation capabilities with modern perception and learning-based methods.
This is a hands-on R&D role: you work from research and prototypes to production on edge hardware, collaborate with software, and flight teams, and help shape how new CV/DL features are built and shipped. The role suits someone who can follow state-of-the-art work, implement what fits our constraints, and care about real-world performance—not only offline benchmarks. ResponsibilitiesRelocalization & navigation * Design and develop satellite, map, and semantic navigation capabilities that improve the overall quality of our navigation * Build and maintain pipelines for map and reference-data preparation before missions * Extend the existing visual-inertial navigation stack with relocalization and map-based aiding features * Develop training pipelines for these tasks (data preparation, training, evaluation, and iteration) * Create utilities that make map preloading and mission setup convenient for operators and integrators
Research & implementation * Track relevant research and industry approaches; prototype and adopt methods where they clearly improve the product * Reimplement or adapt algorithms when off-the-shelf solutions do not fit our data, hardware, or latency requirements * Define evaluation metrics and acceptance criteria for new features before field and deployment rollouts
Edge deployment & production * Optimize models and inference for target onboard hardware * Integrate new features into the production codebase with stable APIs, logging, and failure handling * Take part in architecture decisions, code review, and team practices that keep production quality high as the stack grows
Required skills & experience * 3+ years of practical experience in computer vision and deep learning * Strong Python; ability to write clear, maintainable code for experiments and production paths * Experience with training and deploying deep learning models (PyTorch) * Familiarity with model optimization for edge or embedded devices (pruning, quantization, ONNX/TensorRT-class tooling, or equivalent) * Comfort working with geospatial or map-related data and preprocessing pipelines * Practical production mindset: reproducible experiments, versioning, and validation on real data * English B2+ for documentation and technical discussion; Ukrainian for day-to-day team communication
Nice to have * Experience with deep learning keypoint detection and matching approaches * Comfortable with geometric computer vision (camera models, epipolar geometry, robust estimation) * Multi-sensor fusion / SLAM / EKF background * UAV, robotics, or aerospace field experience * Experience with satellite or aerial imagery, semantic segmentation, or visual place recognition
What we offer * Team eager to share the knowledge we have and help you become proficient across a wide range of areas; * Courses and investment in your professional growth; * Work on game-changing products which have real impact on the world; * Team which share common values and meanings, help and support each other; * Possibility to create, test and improve real autonomous aircrafts; * Official employment, booking, 21 days of vacation; * There is some food in office, water, beer, cigarettes; * You will definitely not be the same as before!
