We're Hiring: SLAM Engineer
Full time | Core team
LAT Aerospace | Perception & Autonomy
At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation autonomy stack powering aircraft for complex missions. Our team is kicking off a new chapter — developing the full flight-control, obstacle-avoidance, GNSS-denied navigation, and swarm-coordination layers that will define LAT’s autonomy architecture.
The SLAM layer is the backbone of that mission — enabling precise real-time localization, mapping, and relative positioning for single-vehicle and swarm scenarios.
What you’ll do
Build real-time SLAM and localization pipelines for UAVs operating in fully or partially GPS-denied environments.
Fuse multiple perception streams — camera (mono/stereo), IMU, lidar, depth sensors, altimeters, and terrain databases — into consistent state estimates.
Develop relative-position estimation for multi-agent systems: identifying, tracking, and localizing other drones in a swarm using visual/lidar cues.
Integrate terrain-relative navigation (TRN) and map-matching algorithms to achieve sub-meter localization accuracy.
Design robust VIO/VSLAM architectures that work in low-light, motion-blur, and feature-poor environments.
Implement and optimize EKF/UKF-based sensor fusion or factor-graph methods for real-time UAV operation.
Build and maintain simulation and evaluation pipelines for validating localization accuracy under varied conditions (urban, rural, low-altitude, high-dynamics).
Iterate through real-world flight testing to refine robustness, latency, and compute performance on embedded hardware.
What we're looking for
Strong background in SLAM, VIO, VSLAM, or multi-sensor fusion for robotics or UAVs.
Proficiency with C++ and/or Python for real-time SLAM and computational geometry.
Hands-on experience with visual SLAM frameworks (ORB-SLAM, VINS-Fusion, OKVIS, ROVIO, Kimera, etc.).
Expertise in state estimation using EKF/UKF, factor graphs (GTSAM, Ceres), or graph-based optimization.
Experience working with camera + IMU fusion, calibration, synchronization, and noise modelling.
Familiarity with lidar processing, scan matching, ICP/NDT, or lidar-inertial fusion pipelines.
Understanding of 3D geometry, reprojection, depth estimation, and perception for robotics.
Knowledge of embedded compute constraints and techniques for optimizing algorithms for real-time deployment.
Why LAT?
Core-team role building the autonomy brain of India’s most ambitious aerospace startup.
Ownership, speed, and the opportunity to define a new class of systems from scratch.
Top Skills
What We Do
Imagine a world where flying is as easy as taking a bus. A world where air travel isn't just for the major cities, but for everyone, everywhere. No more congested hubs, no more wasted hours in security lines—just seamless, affordable, on-demand flights connecting thousands of destinations that the world has ignored for too long.
We are building the future of mass aviation: a network of high-frequency, low-cost, 8 seater, STOL (short take-off and landing), medium-haul aircraft that make every city, every town, and every community accessible—without compromise.
Powered by next-generation aircraft, designed ground-up for efficiency, built for affordability, and future-proofed for autonomy, we are aiming to rewrite the rules of flight.
Our aircraft will take off and land in compact "air-stops" no bigger than a parking lot—no baggage belts, no security bottlenecks—eliminating the need for complex, expensive airport infrastructure that regional air travel simply doesn't require.
No more waiting. No more detours. No more being forced to drive when you should be able to fly. This isn't the impractical supersonic future of aviation as you are made to believe. This is the real future of aviation that our communities need.
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We are hiring
We’re building a next-gen aerospace company — from scratch.
Our Aircraft team is leading the development of our 8-seater hybrid-electric aircraft, spanning design, prototyping, systems integration, testing, and everything in between.
Our GTE team is focused on building a world-class gas turbine engine. We're especially looking for folks with experience in turbines, rotors, control systems, or anything close.
If you want to build something ambitious and enduring, write to us:
[email protected] (for Aircraft)
[email protected] (for GTE)
