Staff Engineer (Autonomy and Motion Planning)

Responsibilities

• This position on the Autonomy team in the UK will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands‑on contributors
• We expect candidates to demonstrate unparalleled end‑to‑end outcome ownership, driving the architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of safe and effective mission autonomy software throughout the entire product lifecycle
• 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 of the 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 to enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios
• Utilize your software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, that may interact directly or indirectly with a breadth of system components (e.g., sensor processing, state estimation, peer‑to‑peer communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload interfacing)
• Leverage internal product and program‑specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver state‑of‑the‑art capabilities to vehicle platforms (whether internally and externally owned), with a clear path towards architecture and capability evolution over time
• Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often working closely with vehicle integration teams and associated operational subject matter experts (e.g., fighter pilots, UAV operators, etc.)
• Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi‑stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership
• Travel to co‑locate with end‑users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Benefits

• Excellent Medical Coverage
• Mental Health Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Pet Insurance
• Flexible Work Hours
• Onsite Gym (DC)
• Gym Discount (San Diego)Free Parking
• Competitive Compensation
• Stock Benefits
• 401K Services and Match

Qualifications

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Proven ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co‑ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution
• 7+ years’ experience in one or more of the following: software sub‑system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls
• Proficient in production‑level C++ software development
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management
• 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
• Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research‑grade to operationally ready
• Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to: Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands‑on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations; Collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming; Automated red force vs blue force tactics; Motion planning across a variety of vehicle classes, kinematic constraints, and team compositions; Weapons target assignment, Sensor target pairing, sensor‑centric control laws; Collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety‑monitoring; Experience in more than one operational effect (e.g., strike, air combat, surveillance, reconnaissance, etc.) and more than one associated domain (e.g., air, space, maritime, ground, etc.); Experience with FOSS software that is commonly used in robotic systems (e.g., ROS, OMPL, optimization solvers, etc.); Experience with simulation tools and environments (e.g., AFSIM, NGTS) for testing and validation; Familiarity with practical aspects of navigation and communications systems; Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, from emerging opportunity through system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment; Familiarity with systems engineering methodologies; Familiarity with high‑assurance software development processes (e.g., DO‑178C or equivalent MIL‑STD’s)

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