Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning

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,