Senior Staff Software Engineer Autonomous Pilot Integration Expeditionary

You will own technical direction for autonomy across V-BAT, X-BAT, and future expeditionary platforms. You will guide platform integration and deployment, solve complex autonomy challenges, influence architecture across engineering groups, support operational events, and improve engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical direction for expeditionary autonomy across current and future platforms
• Guide development of mission autonomy, payload integration, flight-autonomy interfaces, and multi-agent capabilities
• Establish platform integration, interface evolution, and mission-readiness strategy with the Aircraft team
• Influence architecture across autonomy, perception, command-and-control, aircraft, and customer organizations
• Lead architecture reviews, engineering standards, and interface definitions
• Guide customer releases, deployment strategy, mission validation, and critical operational events
• Drive improvements to engineering processes, integration workflows, testing infrastructure, and developer experience
• Define command-and-control interoperability strategy and open-systems adoption
• Mentor senior engineers and help define hiring standards for senior roles

Requirements

• BS/MS in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Expert-level C++ and Linux systems development experience
• Experience defining technical strategy across multiple engineering teams or programs
• Experience influencing architecture and solving highly complex systems integration challenges
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity