Staff Robotics Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the vehicle software system and drive it toward a modular design: clean, versioned interfaces across onboard software, GNC and state estimation, sensing, vehicle management, and mission…
• Lead the hardest cross-disciplinary robotics problems end to end, anticipating future missions and minimizing the cost of change.
• Set and raise standards for how the robotics team builds, tests, and validates vehicle software, using quality metrics to find gaps and recommend fixes against accepted frameworks.
• Drive rigorous testing across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and field trials, and own diagnosis of issues anywhere in the vehicle software domain so problems surface on a bench instead of at sea.
• Improve autonomy and vehicle behaviors so vehicles handle long, continuous missions with minimal intervention.
• Own fault management and vehicle health end to end: detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR), safe-state and abort-to-surface behaviors, and graceful degradation, so vehicles keep themselves safe and get home when…
• Share in the robotics on-call rotation for live, around-the-clock campaigns, triaging and resolving vehicle-software and autonomy issues on active missions, and building the runbooks, telemetry, and escalation paths…
• Design for fleet scale: standardize vehicle software across the fleet and build safe over-the-air deployment with versioning and rollback, so continuous, around-the-clock campaigns across many vehicles stay reliable…

Job requirements

• 8+ years building robotics or autonomous-systems software, including at least 5–7 years in a commercial, production robotics environment shipping at scale, plus staff-level technical leadership across subsystems or…
• Deep experience architecting vehicle or autonomy software that stayed robust, modular, and scalable as it grew, with interfaces that held up through real change.
• Strong fundamentals in C++ and/or Python, and hands-on experience with ROS or ROS 2 on real hardware.
• Depth in one or more of GNC, state estimation, sensor fusion, or mission autonomy, with breadth across the rest.
• A track record building fault detection and recovery (FDIR), health monitoring, or safe-state behaviors into systems that must run unattended and recover on their own.
• Experience standardizing and safely deploying software across a fleet of vehicles or embedded devices, including over-the-air updates, versioning, and rollback.
• A record of raising the technical bar for a robotics team through standards, mentoring, and review.
• Comfort with the realities of physical, safety-critical systems, intermittent connectivity, and field operations, including willingness to take part in an on-call rotation supporting continuous, around-the-clock…