Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning

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.