Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We focus on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together, leveraging existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, and integrating third-party platforms into Anduril's Lattice ecosystem.
As a Staff Robotics Engineer, you will lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability integrated into our products. This includes systems analysis, sensor selection and integration, perception architecture and implementation, motion planning, health management, behavior analysis, simulation and test infrastructure, and interfaces with lower- and higher-level systems.
Responsibilities:
- Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.
- Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time.
- Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies.
- Lead teams that architect, design, and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions, and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Drive the development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures to deliver safe navigation and effective operation of Anduril's autonomous vehicles.
- Perform high-impact work in architecture and implementation across the whole perception and planning stack.
- Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles.
- Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure effective system integration and testing.
- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development.
- Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras.
- Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning.
- Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system.
- Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules.
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion, and capacity.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with autonomous systems in the ground, air, maritime, or space domains.
- Experience with simulation tools and frameworks, such as Gazebo, Unity, or Unreal Engine, for algorithm validation and testing.
- Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems.
- Familiarity with System Engineering concepts.
Benefits: Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.