Location: Ottawa, Ontario (On-site at the Ottawa facility with periodic hybrid work options available)
Position Type: Full-Time
Compensation: Salary & Stock Options
Benefits: Comprehensive Health & Dental package, starting 3 weeks paid annual leave
Contact: If you have issues with your application, please email [email protected]

About Obruta

Founded in 2019, Obruta Space Solutions is enabling the in-space economy by developing the advanced autonomy systems required for in-orbit satellite servicing, logistics, and active debris removal. Today’s satellites are single-use assets that cannot be refueled, inspected, or repaired. Obruta is eliminating this barrier with our flagship product: the RPOD Kit —a turnkey, vision-guided Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) subsystem that makes autonomous spacecraft docking commonplace.

Backed by leading venture capital and top-tier space innovation programs, Obruta is executing cutting-edge perception and navigation projects with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), National Research Council (NRC), and international commercial partners.

The Role

Obruta is seeking a specialized Sensor Systems & Calibration Engineer to lead the hardware selection, optical integration, precision calibration, and multi-sensor synchronization for our flight perception payloads.

In this role, you will be Obruta's technical authority on camera hardware and calibration. Accurate 6-Degrees of Freedom (DOF) pose estimation and autonomous docking depend entirely on sub-millimeter calibration fidelity across extreme thermal and illumination swings (from direct solar glare to planetary eclipse). You will develop automated intrinsic and extrinsic calibration pipelines,



manage precision hardware synchronization between optical CMOS cameras, neuromorphic event sensors, and IMUs, and interface with our commercial avionics and camera suppliers to evaluate incoming sensor hardware.

Long-term, this role will lead the architecture and qualification of Obruta's next-generation optical and sensor payloads as we transition toward building our own spacecraft.

Key Responsibilities

- Precision Camera Calibration: Design, implement, and automate robust intrinsic and extrinsic calibration pipelines for multi-camera systems (optical narrow-angle/telescope, wide-angle CMOS, and event-based neuromorphic sensors) across varying operational distances and thermal environments.
- Multi-Sensor Hardware Synchronization: Implement and verify microsecond-level hardware timestamping and triggering (e.g., PPS, PTP/IEEE 1588, GPIO hardware triggers) across cameras, IMUs, and edge computers.
- Supplier & Hardware Evaluation: Manage technical relationships with commercial-off-the-shelf and custom space-avionics hardware suppliers, establishing incoming hardware acceptance test procedures and validating power, thermal, and optical specifications.
- Laboratory Optical Testing:



Design and operate space-representative illumination and optical test setups in Obruta's 6-DOF dual-arm robotics laboratory to evaluate dynamic range, lens distortion, lens flare, optical blooming, and sensor latency under orbital lighting conditions.
- Sensor Health & Degradation Modeling: Develop sensor health monitoring algorithms and noise characterization models (e.g., thermal drift, cosmic ray noise, pixel degradation) to support Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) pipelines.
- Payload Architecture & Roadmap: Lead trade studies evaluating sensor architectures (optics, focal plane arrays, lens coatings, filtering) to guide Obruta's long-term sensor payload roadmap.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of professional experience in camera systems , optical sensor integration, or precision sensor calibration in aerospace, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or machine vision.
- Demonstrated expertise with classical camera intrinsic/extrinsic calibration algorithms (e.g., OpenCV, Kalibr, Zhang's method, photogrammetry tools, pinhole and fisheye distortion models).
- Robust working knowledge of hardware synchronization, trigger signaling, time-stamping interfaces, and camera protocols (MIPI CSI-2, USB3 Vision, GigE Vision).
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for writing automated calibration routines, sensor driver interfaces, and data analysis pipelines.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Successful candidates must able to obtain and maintain a security assessment under the Controlled Goods Program.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

- Experien

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