JobsUSASoftware Engineer, Perception
Company : Wing
Location : Palo Alto, CA, 94301
Posted Date : 15 September 2025
Job Type : Full Time
Category : Software Development
Occupation : Software Engineer
Job Details
Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing's fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on three continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.
About the Role:
Wing is looking for a Software Engineer, Perception to join our Perception team. This role will be hybrid based in Palo Alto, CA. Your role will be to design, implement, and support perception algorithms for our autonomous drone delivery system.
The position seeks highly-motivated individuals who enjoy working in a highly dynamic team environment. The successful candidate is able to demonstrate outstanding software engineering skills and a knack for solving problems within the drone perception domain. We're looking for people who are intrinsically driven to solve hard problems with stunningly simple and pragmatic solutions, move fast, and are highly adaptive.
What You'll Do:
- Implement and validate perception capabilities for Wing drones including navigating in GPS-denied environments, operating in challenging visual conditions, and building and maintaining large scale sparse and dense maps
- Support and improve existing systems including calibration, vision based navigation, 3D reconstruction and depth, sharing in the team's expertise
- Carefully execute and report on analyses for evaluating new systems and reviewing data from production
- Design perception systems that are suitable for use in the real world in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- 3-6 years of experience in classical/geometric or learning based computer vision, image processing, robotics technologies
- MS degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering or 2 years of experience working on problems involving above mentioned skills in a directly related field
- Excellent software design and implementation skills
- Understanding of structured software development processes (code reviews, version control, unit test development, on-hardware test & debugging).
- Working understanding one or more of the following areas:
- Linear algebra
- Multiview geometry
- 3D reconstruction
- Depth from mono, Depth from stereo
- Camera calibration
- Bonus points for solving real world problems using a combination of learning and geometric based computer vision technologies
- Demonstrated experience writing, highly reliable code for resource constrained environments with real-time requirements
- Ability to independently work with cross-functional teams to drive features to completion.
- Ability to design and implement well thought-out simple solutions to business critical problems
$188,000-$200,000 USD
Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wing's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
If you have a need that requires accommodation during the interview process due to a disability or special need, please let us know by completing our Candidate Accommodations Request Form.
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