Staff Software Engineer

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the delivery of a variety of software integrated into our products. As a technical lead, you will demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next-generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Owning customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.
• Leveraging 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
• Partnering with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies
• Driving architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Contributing to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems
• Leading teams that develop software that runs on- and off-platform, using a variety of technologies
• Acting as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
• Driving the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testing
• Driving the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
• Supporting vehicle manufacturing and deployment
• Leading teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
• Travelling to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in a leadership position within a high-performing technology organisation
• Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
• Experience troubleshooting and analysing remotely deployed software systems
• Capacity to work holistically on software-enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• 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
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
• Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go
• Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
• Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
• Experience with modelling and simulation
• Experience with development of high-assurance safety-critical software
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts
• Desire to learn and grow into other roles that require experience as a Staff Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Senior Manager, Software Engineering
• Desire to grow into a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery

This role offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package, including equity grants and top-tier benefits for full-time employees.