Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning

This position on the Autonomy team in India 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.

What you'll do:

• 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

Required qualifications:

• 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 one or more of the following: 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 co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution
  Preferred qualifications:

• Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready

• Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations

• Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to:

• 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,