Senior Software Engineer, Mission Perception, Planning, and Operations

What you'll do

• Design and implement sensor processing pipelines for sonar, radar, and EO/IR data.
• Build object detection, classification, and multi-target tracking algorithms for maritime environments.
• Develop mission objective decomposition algorithms and resource allocation systems for autonomous planning.
• Build real-time behavior execution software and contingency handling logic for autonomous missions.
• Manage complex mission states and integrate systems with platform control and perception modules.
• Characterize and improve system performance against specific operational requirements.
• Support the testing and field deployment of autonomous maritime capabilities.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years of experience in autonomous systems software, robotics, perception, or real-time systems.
• Experience building software for field-deployed autonomous systems.
• Depth in at least one of perception, mission planning, or runtime mission execution with working knowledge of the others.
• Proficiency in real-time software development with stringent timing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to handle complex state management in production systems.
• Ability to translate operational mission requirements into software requirements.
• Ability to characterize system performance and drive measurable improvements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Ability to receive, process, and disposition encrypted data.
• Maritime or underwater autonomy experience (preferred).
• Sonar or radar signal processing background (preferred).
• Experience with behavior frameworks for autonomous systems (preferred).
• ROS or equivalent robotics middleware background (preferred).
• Experience in planning or scheduling algorithm development for autonomous systems (preferred).
• Military C2 software background (preferred).
• Defense applications background (preferred).