Senior Payloads Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Integrate and deploy payloads on customer-bound hardware platforms and validate in real-world conditions.
• Work across the organization and directly with end-users to deliver new behaviors, payload integrations, and emerging mission use-cases.
• Take a holistic view of autonomous vehicle behavior—how sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems interact—and drive overall performance improvements.
• Analyze test results, identify issues and root causes, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive problems to resolution.
• Partner across business development and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into delivered autonomy capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of relevant experience.
• B.S. in computer science, engineering, robotics, or related field or relevant experience/show of skill.
• Experience in integrating software on hardware systems, including sensors, effectors, and compute platforms.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ (preferred).
• Experience with vehicle networks and diagnostics (CAN, CAN-FD, Ethernet, FlexRay, UDS/J1939) and logging/trace tools.
• Solid core software engineering skills: software design, unit testing, debugging.
• Ability to consistently deliver production-quality software in a continuously integrated environment.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
• Demonstrates clean, maintainable code and documentation practices.
• Experience working in teams and a willingness to proactively solve problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software development for robotics and autonomous systems.
• Experience working with open architectures (e.g., IOP, MOSA, SOSA, FACE).
• Experience with safety-critical systems (e.g., MIL-STD-882, ISO-26262, DO-178).
• Experience programming in Python and Java.
• Experience with ROS2.
• Experience with state machines and motion / path planning.
• Experience with issue tracking (JIRA).
• Knowledge of navigation, mapping algorithms and robot perception.
• Familiarity with real-time operating systems and embedded programming.
• Leadership experience on cross-functional software teams.

Compensation

US Salary Range: $120,000—$200,000 (base salary, plus equity and competitive benefits including premium healthcare, PTO, parental leave, 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement).