Engineering Manager Autonomy Planning and Behaviors

You will lead the technical direction for autonomous decision-making, behavior execution, and motion-planning capabilities. You will define research and development work, identify staffing needs, lead architecture trade-off analysis, contribute to software development, and support simulation, integration, and flight-test validation.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction for autonomous decision-making, behavior execution, and motion-planning capabilities
• Define research, experiments, and development projects
• Identify staffing needs
• Align technical plans with research and technology-roadmap objectives
• Lead architecture design and technology trade-off analysis
• Contribute to hands-on software development
• Support simulation, integration, and flight-test validation

Requirements

• Computer science, aerospace engineering, robotics engineering, or related degree
• Professional experience developing software for airborne autonomous systems
• Expertise in mission management, vehicle autonomy, resource allocation, decision-making, contingency management, or machine learning
• Technical leadership experience for a team of at least four engineers
• Version control
• Pipeline
• Unit testing
• Peer review
• Product development lifecycle experience
• Python
• C++
• Aircraft simulation familiarity
• Proposal writing
• Technical roadmap development
• Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Benefits

• Equity grants
• Catered lunches
• Snacks
• Coffee, tea, and other beverages
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Unlimited vacation
• 401k with match
• Work/life integration