We are looking for a strong Computer Vision and Geospatial AI engineer to work on an AI product in the defence tech domain. The project is long-term and technically challenging

Responsibilities

• Development and optimization of the Computer Vision pipeline
• Working with video streams and processing low-quality video input
• Implementation of cross-view feature matching and image retrieval
• Building and indexing a georeferenced tile database
• Object georeferencing and spatial analytics
• Optimization of inference latency and performance
• Participation in system architecture design

Requirements

Must-have

• 4+ years of experience in Computer Vision / Deep Learning
• Hands-on experience with geo-localisation, place recognition, or image retrieval
• Feature extraction with foundation models: DINOv2, CLIP, or equivalent
• Keypoint detection and matching: LightGlue, LoFTR, DISK, SuperPoint
• Contrastive / metric learning: InfoNCE, triplet loss, hard negative mining
• Homography estimation and geometric verification
• Experience with satellite imagery and geospatial data
• Coordinate systems, tile indexing, GDAL
• Vector search: FAISS or other ANN libraries
• Python, PyTorch at production level
• Experience with video pipelines
• Linux, Docker

Nice to have

• PhD in Computer Vision, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geomatics, or Robotics
• Publications in cross-view localisation, visual SLAM, or UAV navigation
• Experience with degraded or compressed video
• TensorRT, ONNX, edge deployment
• CUDA
• Background in defence, aerospace, or robotics

We are looking for someone who

• Can work not only with ML models but also with production systems
• Can independently build a pipeline and make technical decisions
• Has a practical engineering mindset
• Reads and implements recent research papers
• Understands performance bottlenecks

Tech stack

Python, PyTorch, DINOv2, CLIP, LightGlue, LoFTR, FAISS, GDAL, FFmpeg, Docker, Linux

Work format

• Remote
• Full-time or B2B contract
• Long-term project
• Competitive salary, discussed individually

Domain experience is a plus

• Defence tech
• Drone systems
• Satellite imagery / Remote sensing
• Visual geo-localisation
• ISR / geospatial analytics