Autonomy Engineer

Autonomy Engineer

Requirements

• Master’s degree in computer science/related engineering field
• 6+ years of hands-on experience developing software for autonomous robotic systems
• High proficiency in Python programming language
• Strong functional, procedural, data-oriented, and object-oriented programming experience employing clean code principles and good design patterns/principles

Responsibilities

• Write software that operates real autonomous aircraft systems including F16 fighter jets, group 1-5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as simulated models to accomplish tactical military missions
• Build, leverage, and improve robotic autonomy software architectures that are ultimately tested and deployed on real systems to accomplish military missions
• Implement, leverage and improve state-of-the-art unmanned aerial system (UAS) autonomy solutions to sense, make sense, decide, and act in the context of tactical military missions
• Collaborate with DoD warfighter domain experts and 3rd party UAS vehicle vendors to develop and integrate autonomy software onto OEM hardware
• Implement and optimize autonomy algorithms for tasks such as sensor processing, track propagation and correlation, environment mapping, mission and trajectory planning, reasoning over discrete or uncertain states, optimization, learning, and control theory

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to use data visualization and debugging tools to support autonomous agent development
• Experience developing in Docker and containerized development environments, using Linux-based operating systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu), source control systems, and artifact registries
• Proficiency in the Rust and C++ (version 17 and later) programming languages
• Experience working with defense modeling and simulation tools such as AFSIM and NGTS
• Experience working with mission and autonomy architecture frameworks such as OMS UCI and ROS