Promethion Industries, a European defence technology company, is hiring a Senior Perception & Targeting Engineer in Berlin. You will build the computer vision stack that lets autonomous aircraft detect, track and understand airborne objects in real time using RGB and infrared sensing, and run it on edge hardware.
 About Promethion Industries
Company: European defence technology company
Mission: Autonomy systems for NATO-aligned forces, designed and built in Europe
Focus: Defensive and counter-system capabilities, including anti-UAS
Environment: Resilient autonomy under contested conditions
Team: Works with state-estimation and autonomy engineers
Career Opportunity
Ownership: Own the pipeline from raw sensor data to final model output
Real Data: Work with flight data, synthetic data and growing field datasets
Hard Problems: Reliable perception under vibration, motion blur and difficult lighting
Location: Berlin, a leading European tech and deep-tech hub
 Position Overview
This Senior Perception Engineer role covers the full perception pipeline: sensor data, calibration and preprocessing, inference, tracking and target representation. You will develop deep neural networks alongside classical computer vision, move models from research into real-time use on airborne edge hardware, and tune for latency, frame rate, robustness and compute efficiency.
 Why This Role Matters: Real-time perception on small, fast systems is a hard engineering problem. In this role you see your work run on hardware, work closely with autonomy specialists and help build defensive technology in Europe.
Key Responsibilities
Perception Development
- Build the perception stack for autonomous high-speed aerial systems
- Develop detection, tracking and classification using RGB and IR sensing
- Combine deep neural networks with classical computer vision where it fits
Real-Time Deployment
- Take perception models from research to real-time deployment on airborne edge hardware
- Optimise for latency, frame rate, robustness and compute efficiency
- Own sensor data, calibration, preprocessing, inference and tracking
Data & Collaboration
- Work with real flight data, synthetic data and field datasets
- Work with state-estimation and autonomy engineers
- Interface extra cues from radar, RF or other sensors when available
Qualifications & Requirements
Experience
- Strong hands-on experience building computer vision systems deployed on real hardware
- Strong deep learning experience for detection, tracking, classification, segmentation or pose estimation
- Experience moving models into continuously running real-time systems
Technical Skills
- PyTorch or comparable ML frameworks
- Deployment with TensorRT, ONNX or similar inference stacks
- Strong Python and solid C++
- Understanding of cameras, optics, calibration and real-time image pipelines
- Edge AI hardware experience, ideally NVIDIA Jetson
Working Style
- Ability to work with imperfect real-world data and hardware limits
- Strong understanding of latency-sensitive perception
- Ability to debug from raw sensor data to final model output
About Promethion Industries & Defence Tech Careers in Berlin
Promethion Industries develops autonomy systems in Europe for NATO-aligned forces, with a focus on defensive and counter-system capabilities. Berlin has a growing defence and deep-tech scene, with strong demand for engineers who can ship real-time AI on hardware.
Career Excellence: Build real-time vision for defensive autonomous systems in a fast-growing European company.
Who Should Apply?
- Computer Vision Engineers: With real-time hardware deployment experience
- Deep Learning Engineers: Working on detection and tracking
- Robotics and Drone Engineers: Moving into perception
- Edge AI Developers: With TensorRT, ONNX or Jetson skills
- Defence Tech Candidates: Interested in European autonomy projects
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