Senior Staff Engineer (Autonomy and Motion Planning)

Join our Autonomy team as a Senior Staff Engineer, where you will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products. You will be responsible for architecting, designing, delivering, supporting, and evolving mission autonomy software throughout the entire product lifecycle. Your expertise in software and systems will be crucial in enabling unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across various domains with minimal human supervision. You will collaborate with internal and external teams, act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, and travel up to 20% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into products, acting as a technical lead and hands-on contributor.
• Drive the architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of safe and effective mission autonomy software throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across various domains with minimal human supervision.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment
• Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution
• 7+ years' experience in one or more of the following: software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls

Automated red force vs blue force tactics

• Weapons target assignment, Sensor target pairing, sensor-centric control laws
• Motion planning across a variety of vehicle classes, kinematic constraints, and team compositions
• Collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety-monitoring
• Experience in more than one operational effect (e.g., strike, air combat, surveillance, reconnaissance, etc.) and more than one associated domain (e.g., air, space, maritime, ground, etc.)

Requirements

Proficient in production-level C++ software development

• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast paced, enthusiastic, and mission-centric environment
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready
• Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to:
• Collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming
• Familiarity with practical aspects of navigation and communications systems
• Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, from emerging opportunity through system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
• Familiarity with systems engineering methodologies
• Familiarity with high-assurance software development processes (e.g., DO-178C or equivalent MIL-STD's)

Preferred

• Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations
• Experience with FOSS software that is commonly used in robotic systems (e.g., ROS, OMPL, optimization solvers, etc.)
• Experience with simulation tools and environments (e.g., AFSIM, NGTS) for testing and validation