Staff Software Engineer Autonomous Pilot Integration

You will develop and integrate autonomy software for unmanned platforms across air, maritime, space, and effects missions. You will lead a feature crew, create and negotiate interface contracts, mentor engineers, validate mission-ready systems, support live operations, debug full-stack integration issues, analyze mission data, and improve deployment processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate autonomy software for unmanned platforms
• Bring up payload computers and container-based deployments
• Lead a feature crew or sub-program
• Set technical direction and report progress
• Create and negotiate ICDs and interface contracts
• Mentor engineers and onboard senior hires
• Drive design reviews post-mortems and engineering rigor
• Own build configuration validation and mission readiness
• Support live mission operations and troubleshoot systems
• Diagnose hardware and software integration issues
• Capture mission data reproduce issues and drive fixes
• Build tools and processes for deployment and testing
• Own command-and-control interface contracts and standards compliance
• Interview candidates and onboard engineers
• Travel to offices customer sites and integration or test events

Requirements

• Relevant engineering degree or equivalent practical experience
• 7 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• C++ proficiency
• Linux-based development experience
• Embedded-systems experience
• Shell scripting
• System diagnostics
• Familiarity with autonomy or robotics middleware pub-sub or IPC frameworks
• Experience supporting field or mission tests for unmanned or autonomous systems
• Experience with autonomy simulation environments
• Experience leading a small technical team or major capability
• Experience mentoring engineers
• Experience authoring or negotiating ICDs
• System-performance troubleshooting skills
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity