Principal Engineer, Autonomy

The role

The Principal Engineer for Autonomy is the senior-most individual contributor in the autonomy organization. You will have technical ownership of Perception, Prediction, or Planning and set technical direction for the autonomy stack.

What you will do

• Own the design and evolution of the perception stack including detection, classification, tracking, and multi-modal sensor fusion.
• Drive perception robustness across real-world operating conditions.
• Own the prediction stack and design models for intent inference, behavior forecasting, and handling occlusions and edge cases.
• Own the design of the planning and decision-making stack.
• Set the technical direction at the interfaces between primary areas and the rest of the stack.
• Partner with other senior engineers to keep the system coherent end-to-end.
• Own the functional and SW architecture of the autonomy stack.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on experience building production autonomy systems.
• Technical depth across multiple modules including localization, perception, prediction, planning, and controls.
• Track record of shipping autonomy components that have run in production on real vehicles at non-trivial scale.
• Prior experience as the most senior individual contributor in an autonomy organization.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++ and Python.
• Fluency with modern deep learning for autonomy including training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Experience working in or with ROS / ROS 2 and the distributed-systems realities of on-vehicle compute.

Nice to have

• Experience with safety-critical or functional-safety-relevant systems (ISO 26262, ISO 13849, SOTIF, or aerospace equivalents).
• Experience operating in an Operational Design Domain that involves heavy interaction with humans, mixed traffic, or unstructured environments.
• Familiarity with simulation-driven verification and the use of simulation as part of a CI/CD pipeline for autonomy.

About the company

AeroVect is a Series A company transforming ground handling with autonomy. Their customers include some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers.