Senior Staff Engineer, Software Autonomy

Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on technical lead and subject-matter expert for edge AI and autonomy software across sea, air, and space platforms.
• Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to understand requirements, write code, develop capabilities, and integrate software with hardware.
• Design tactical autonomy algorithms for unmanned aircraft operating across air, land, and sea domains with minimal human supervision.
• Develop high-performance software modules for planning, decision-making, and behavior execution in dynamic and adversarial environments.
• Implement and test behavior architectures supporting multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability.
• Integrate classical autonomy with machine-learning methods, including reinforcement learning.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams.
• Deploy autonomy capabilities to real platforms and participate in field tests and flight demonstrations.
• Analyze mission logs and performance data to diagnose failures and optimize behavior models.
• Research and prototype algorithms, identify tactical capability gaps, and contribute to the autonomy roadmap.
• Adapt autonomy solutions to evolving mission sets, compliance requirements, and operational feedback.
• Provide software handover and training to customers.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for customers and internal teams.
• Mentor teammates.
• Travel to office locations, customer sites, and flight-integration events; the role typically involves approximately 10–15% travel, with customer deployments, training, and flight testing potentially requiring approximately 30% travel.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's and master's degrees in Aerospace, AI, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related engineering field.
• 12+ years of industry experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development for autonomy or robotics applications.
• 2+ years of experience working in a startup environment.
• Strong software-engineering background.
• Strong proficiency in modern C++.
• Intermediate proficiency in Python.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in Hindi and English.
• Ability to travel to and stay at customer sites across India and Asia.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the defense aviation or robotics industry.
• Ability to travel to the USA for up to three months at a time for training.