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Senior Software Engineer Autonomous Pilot Integration Weapons

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Description

You will develop and integrate autonomy capabilities for launched effects platforms, including payload-computer bring-up, autopilot integration, multi-agent coordination, and disconnected deployments. You will own features through live testing and operational deployment, resolve hardware and software issues, support field events, and improve integration and mission-readiness processes.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and integrate autonomy software for launched effects platforms
  • Perform payload-computer bring-up and autopilot integration
  • Own features from simulation through live flight testing and deployment
  • Lead technical execution, design decisions, and mentoring
  • Collaborate with autonomy, perception, autopilot, C2, customer, and contractor partners
  • Contribute to design reviews, ICDs, integration plans, and post-mortems
  • Build, configure, and validate mission-ready systems
  • Support test sites, customer exercises, and live demonstrations
  • Diagnose hardware and software integration issues
  • Capture mission data and reproduce issues in simulation
  • Develop tools and processes to improve testing and deployment
  • Implement and validate UCI, OMS, MOSA, WOSA, and TAK/CoT interfaces
  • Travel 10–20% for offices, customer sites, training, tests, and exercises

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent advanced-degree experience
  • C++ proficiency and experience with real-time or embedded systems
  • Linux-based development and embedded-systems experience
  • Experience integrating complex software and hardware systems
  • Experience supporting system integration, testing, or field events
  • Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity

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