Mission Systems Lead

What you'll do

• Lead a technical team in the development and integration of Omen’s mission perception, autonomy, and payload systems.
• Hire, manage, and mentor multi-disciplinary engineers while setting technical standards and team norms.
• Define and own the technical roadmap for mission systems across short, medium, and long-term horizons.
• Own the software stack for autonomous mission execution, including planning, operation, and command and control tools.
• Integrate payload modules with the host vehicle stack, managing power, bandwidth, timing, and autonomy interfaces.
• Oversee sensing and world model development for safe navigation in GPS-denied and austere environments.
• Drive architecture selection for robotic mission systems, including hardware, compute, storage, and network designs.
• Define and own payload interface control documents (ICDs) for third-party and government-furnished vendors.

What we're looking for

• Experience as a Senior or staff robotics or software development engineer.
• Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization.
• Experience with development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures under dynamic network topologies.
• Experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages like C++ or Rust.
• Deep understanding of autonomous systems, including perception and payload capabilities for commercial and military missions.
• Experience with the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with vehicle management systems, Systems Engineering concepts, requirements traceability, and ICDs.
• Familiarity with modular open systems approaches and standard interface protocols for air vehicle mission systems.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience (preferred).
• Experience with high assurance safety critical software, modeling and simulation, and comprehensive test suites (preferred).
• Experience delivering perception, world modeling, or assured navigation for autonomous vehicles in GPS-denied environments (preferred).
• Experience building mission planning, operator control, or post-mission debrief tooling for uncrewed systems (preferred).
• Experience integrating third-party or government-furnished payloads into a new host platform (preferred).
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems (preferred).
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and building team cohesion (preferred).
• Operational experience with autonomous air systems, ideally Group 3 or shipboard/expeditionary (preferred).