Jobs in Columbia, MD

About the role

Quidient is seeking a Senior Offline Mapping Engineer to own and advance the accuracy and robustness of our offline mapping and 3D reconstruction systems. This role sits at the core of our Generalized Scene Reconstruction Platform, where classical SfM and multi-view stereo provide the foundation and modern deep learning methods push quality over the edge — particularly in textureless, featureless, and highly reflective environments that defeat traditional approaches. You will enhancethe pipeline that turns real-world captures into highly accurate, production-quality 3D reconstructions. This is a hybrid position, meaning that you will need to live within easy driving distance to our Technology Center in Columbia, Maryland.

What you'll bring

• Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• This is a Senior-to-Staff level role.
• Significant hands-on experience building or substantially improving an offline SfM, multi-view stereo, or dense reconstruction system in production — not just research prototypes.
• Strong C++ and Python.
• Deep working knowledge of multiview geometry, bundle adjustment, nonlinear estimation, and — critically — the practical failure modes of each.
• Real experience with sensor calibration on real hardware.
• Hands-on ability to design, train, and integrate deep learning components (learned matching, depth estimation, feature extraction) into a classical reconstruction pipeline using PyTorch or equivalent.
• Willingness to work on-site in Columbia, MD, in a hybrid capacity.
• Experience in fast-paced or startup environments.
• Prior work on reconstruction of textureless, reflective, or geometrically challenging environments.
• Published or shipped work combining learned and classical methods in 3D vision pipelines.
• Expertise in neural scene representations (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, or similar).

Benefits