# Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning

**Company**: Waymo
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: International Office Entity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This position on the Autonomy team in India will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors.

## Responsibilities

- Develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across air, land, sea, and space domains with minimal human supervision.

- Implement and test behaviors that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios.

- Work throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing tools and workflows consistent with collaborative high-quality software development.

- Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios.

- Utilize software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, interacting directly or indirectly with various system components.

- Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to vehicle platforms.

- Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often working closely with vehicle integration teams and associated operational subject matter experts.

- Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment.

- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.

## Requirements

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.

- Proficient in production-level C++ software development.

- 7+ years' experience in software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls.

- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.

- Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment.

- 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.

- Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- software sub-system scheduling and integration
- behavior planning
- task and resource allocation
- motion planning
- optimization
- flight controls
- collaborative software development tools

### Nice to have
- Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs)
- mission systems integration
- hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations
- Collaborative mission planning
- synchronized teaming
- Automated red force vs blue force tactics
- Weapons target assignment
- Sensor target pairing
- sensor-centric control laws
- Collision avoidance
- geofencing
- safety-monitoring

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