Autonomy Engineer - Motion Planning & Controls

The role

You will design, build, and validate motion planning and control systems for intelligent autonomous vehicles. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to explore concepts through rapid, iterative prototyping.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain autonomy software for motion planning, trajectory optimization, and flight control.
• Integrate systems into real-world platforms, bridging research and production.
• Stay current on research and apply state-of-the-art techniques.

Required qualifications

• Master’s or PhD degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent working experience.
• Proficiency in C/C++ with experience shipping production-grade software.
• Strong foundation in modern control system design, including MPC.
• Experience developing and implementing motion planning and trajectory optimization systems.
• Working understanding of rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics.
• Hands-on experience implementing motion planning and control software on real robotics vehicles.
• Comfortable developing and reasoning about multi-threaded real-time systems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with learned motion planning and/or data-driven trajectory improvement techniques.
• Familiarity with high-speed vehicle planning or multi-agent trajectory optimization.
• Experience working with embedded robotics platforms, such as NVIDIA Jetson.
• Experience writing microcontroller code, e.g., on STM32.
• Experience building vehicle dynamics simulations based on flight test data.
• Familiarity with open-source flight control systems, such as Ardupilot and PX4.
• Background in convex and nonlinear optimization.

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 is a dual-use technology company spun out of MIT. They build AI and autonomy solutions for unmanned systems operating in GPS-denied and contested environments.