Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will build and deliver on-board and off-board software for unmanned aerial vehicle products. You will work with software and hardware engineers to bridge the gap from research to production autonomy systems.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize software to enable robotics tasks.
• Design, develop, and optimize software to interface with internal and external stakeholder software.
• Integrate new capabilities into real-world platforms, bridging research and production.
• Write and supervise the development of clean, efficient, and maintainable code in C++ and Python.
• Contribute to robust software development and test pipelines for large-scale dataset based test evaluation and resimulation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of software development experience in C++ environment.
• Strong coding skills in C++ or Python.
• Strong software engineering architecture, abstraction and design skills.
• Hands-on experience applying writing software for robotics and/or computer vision applications.
• Experience with Robotics middleware (such as ROS2 or protobuf), and Linux based software development.
• Experience with Git, code review, integration testing, CI/CD.
• Experience with test driven development, evaluation, integration and burndown testing.
• Experience implementing software interfaces to other onboard or offboard software.

Nice to have

• Experience working in autonomous driving or similar robot software development environments.
• Familiarity with robotic software algorithms SLAM, cameras, sensor fusion and/or motion planning.
• Experience with interfacing to physical devices, sensors, data exchange/network protocols, and realtime systems.
• Familiarity with bash and python scripting.
• Experience with Drone software (such as Ardupilot, Betaflight).
• Familiarity with defense software platforms such as Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK).

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Generous benefits package

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• May be subject to a government security clearance process

About the company

Tycho.AI builds autonomy software for unmanned systems operating in GPS- and comms-denied environments. The team is rethinking autonomy using modular AI, advanced visual-inertial sensing, and real-time edge compute.