Software Engineer: Perception (I)

Lodestar develops autonomous protection capabilities for high-value space assets. The Software Engineer I - Perception builds and refines computer vision and machine learning algorithms that detect and understand space targets, supporting autonomous decision-making in space environments.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the perception system at the core of Lodestar's autonomy software suite
• Work through the full lifecycle of perception algorithms alongside senior engineers including literature review, training, evaluation, optimisation and deployment
• Build on and optimise our existing models for edge computing, and develop new components with guidance from the perception leads
• Help develop and test our methods for predicting the relative pose of dynamic space targets in harsh and unpredictable visual environments
• Integrate perception models into mission simulation environments and real-time autonomy pipelines
• Contribute to the design of realistic sensor models and digital twins to improve perception fidelity in mission scenarios
• Maintain and extend our perception tooling, model training infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks
• Collaborate across the autonomy, estimation, and mission software teams to support perception fidelity, performance, and scalability