Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy - Behavior and Motion Planning (R6007)

What you'll do:

• Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for autonomous trajectory planning and control for single and multi-agent systems
• Build reliable, robust, and maintainable software, primarily in modern C++, with Python used for prototyping, analysis, automation, and testing.
• Develop comprehensive tests and evaluate planning stack performance in simulation and, where applicable, on real hardware.
• Diagnose complex algorithmic and software failures, including concurrency, performance, and integration issues.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to refine requirements and deliver capabilities that meet operational needs.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of scalable, maintainable autonomy and software architecture
• Develop analysis tools to allow for rapid iteration
• Take new product features from ideation to verification, to flight testing, and all the way to maturation
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers
• Stay current with the latest advancements in robotics, and apply them to solve challenging problems

Projects you might work on:

• Motion planning that produces safe, dynamically feasible behavior under real-world constraints.
• Collaborative and distributed motion planning for multi-agent scenarios.
• Incorporating various types of motion and dynamics models into the planning stack.
• Write software that allows the customer to interact with payloads safely.
• Planning approaches that incorporate vision-language models (VLMs), vision-language-action models (VLAs), or other learned components.
• Validate the planning stack using software-, hardware-, and vehicle-in-the-loop simulation of complex autonomous missions.