Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy mission-autonomy software using modern C++
• Use Python to develop tooling for analysis, simulation, test automation, and mission evaluation.
• Develop software for mission planning, task sequencing, behavior orchestration, state management, and autonomous mission execution.
• Build decision-making and contingency-management systems that respond appropriately to vehicle health, sensor availability, communications loss, environmental changes, and mission updates.
• Translate concepts of operation, mission objectives, system requirements, and test objectives into well-defined autonomous behaviors and software interfaces.
• Integrate mission software with flight controls, navigation, perception, payloads, communications, ground-control systems, and operator interfaces.
• Design clear and reliable interfaces between high-level mission logic and lower-level vehicle capabilities.
• Develop systems that continue operating effectively when communications, GNSS, sensing, or other resources are degraded or unavailable.

Job requirements

• Strong software-engineering skills in modern C++ and Python.
• Experience developing production software on Linux.
• Experience developing software for autonomous systems, robotics, or aerospace platforms.
• Hands-on experience implementing one or more mission-autonomy capabilities, such as task planning, behavior trees, state machines, hierarchical planning, decision-making, mission execution, or contingency management.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, interfaces, concurrency, data flow, and system-level debugging.
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable, and well-documented software.
• Experience taking software from prototype through integration, testing, and deployment on real hardware.
• Ability to diagnose failures using logs, telemetry, simulation results, and observed system behavior.