Senior Software Engineer - Robotics

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and architecture of autonomy solutions across one or more platforms, making key trade-off decisions independently.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, reviewing designs and code to maintain high engineering standards.
• Develop and adapt mission behavior, navigation, and decision-making logic for diverse defense platforms and missions.
• Design and implement modular, reusable autonomy capabilities across different vehicle types and programs.
• Integrate and deploy autonomy solutions onto embedded Linux and other hardware platforms, including sensor interfacing and data collection.
• Conduct system-level setup, testing, and validation, including software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) evaluations.
• Support live flight testing of autonomy software on Group 1–5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
• Troubleshoot complex software and integration issues to ensure reliability and performance across the stack.
• Collaborate with third-party UAS vendors and cross-functional teams to deploy autonomy software on OEM and company hardware.
• Travel between company offices and customer sites as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related engineering field.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience working with robotic systems, including hardware, software, and integration.
• Experience leading technical design decisions on complex, ambiguous autonomy problems with minimal guidance.
• Experience developing autonomy behavior and decision-making logic, such as behavior trees and state machines, and/or navigation algorithms for robotic or autonomous systems.
• Experience with modern C++.
• Experience integrating robotics products with Pixhawk autopilots, including ArduPilot and/or PX4.
• Experience with communication buses and protocols, including UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI/QSPI, I2C, and Ethernet.
• Experience developing in Docker and containerized deployment environments.
• Experience with Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL and Ubuntu.
• Familiarity with real-time, edge-computing, and safety-critical systems operating in SIL, HIL, test, and operational environments.
• Excellent communication skills and a customer-oriented project delivery mindset.
• Ability to hold UK Security Clearance; current or previous clearance is preferred.

Benefits and Compensation

• The position is based in the office five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.
• Opportunities to work on live autonomy testing and defense customer deployments.