Position Overview / Onsite / Full-time / Salaried

Urban Sky is seeking a SeniorEmbeddedImaging Software Engineer to own the firmware, imaging pipeline, and data-movement stack behind our electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) payloads – from the sensor at the focal plane to the command-and-control link on the ground.

You’ll write the firmware that drives our cameras and edge compute, own the CUDA image processing pipeline that turns raw pixels into clean, calibrated, geo-tagged imagery, and architect the high-rate data paths and C2 infrastructure that connect the payload to the customer.

Your goal: deliver clean, honest imagery. Much of this work proves out in the field – at events, exercises, and customer engagements.

Key Responsibilities

Own embedded firmware for our EO and IR payloads: sensor bring-up, driver development, and edge compute on NVIDIA Jetson platforms

Integrate cameras and sensors over PCIe, MIPI/CSI, and USB, and develop board-support packages for custom carrier boards, system-on-modules, and companion microcontrollers

Own the L0 image processing pipeline running in CUDA at the edge: debayering, white balance, gamma, and camera/lens correction – applied to raw frames before any codec

Own IR-specific processing: non-uniformity correction (NUC), bad-pixel replacement, and radiometric calibration

Develop multi-frame super-resolution and related computational imaging capabilities

Implement imagery metadata (KLV/MISB) so every frame carries accurate pointing, position, and time

Architect high-throughput data paths across the vehicle – PCIe as a first-class specialty – and the routing infrastructure that carries imagery, telemetry, and C2 across satellite, tactical-radio, and IP links

Optimizefor latency, throughput, and determinism,



and balance pipeline compute against onboard ML workloads sharing the same CUDA resources

Integrate payload firmware with the gimbal and motion-control stack, consumingpointingand autonomy commands from the broader payload software architecture

Develop andmaintainoptical calibrations for our EO/IR payloads – lens distortion modeling, vignetting/flat-field correction, and MTF/sharpness characterization – so imagery quality is measured and repeatable across cameras and flights

Implement motion and temporal compensation (frame-to-frame registration, stabilization, and temporal filtering) to maximize effective image quality from a moving platform

Qualifications

Experience building end-to-end camera/imaging systems, from sensor to downstream consumer

Working experience with image processing pipelines (debayering, calibration, correction) and CUDA or GPU-accelerated processing

Experience with optical calibration and characterization – distortion modeling, vignetting correction, MTF/sharpness measurement – and building the correction steps that apply them in a processing pipeline

Familiarity with motion/temporal compensation techniques (registration, stabilization, temporal filtering) for imaging from moving platforms

5+ years developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for embedded Linux and/orbare-metal/RTOS systems





Hands-on experience shipping on NVIDIA Jetson or comparable embedded Linux/SoC platforms

Deep experience moving high-rate data over PCIe (driver, DMA, endpoint/root-complex level)

Solid grounding in networking, data routing, and command-and-control infrastructure

Strong hardware debugging skills and comfort working from schematics

Nice-to-Haves / Preferred Skills:

IR/thermal imaging experience, including NUC and radiometric calibration

GStreamer, V4L2, or other imaging/video pipeline frameworks

Computational imaging techniques (super-resolution, stacking, HDR)

Defense imagery and metadata standards (MISB/KLV, STANAG); defense or mission-critical development experience

FPGA workflows or high-speed serial interfaces (SerDes, Aurora, MIPI)

Experience with optics and optical hardware

Experience with multi-sensor and multispectral fusion – co-registering and combining imagery across sensors and bands into fused data products, in partnership with downstream data teams

Requirements

Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Must be able to obtain andmaintaina US security clearance (an active clearance is a plus)

Must belocatednear Denver, CO or willing torelocate; role is on-site at our Denver headquarters (4800 Race St)

Travel expected to support field events, exercises, and customer engagements

Benefits

Stock Options

Medical, Vision and Dental

Flexible PTO

Cell Phone Bill Stipend

Urban Sky is an Equal Prospect employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

📌 Senior Embedded Imaging Software Engineer (Prince Edward Island)
🏢 Urban Sky
📍 Prince Edward Island