Staff Robotics Engineer - Surface Dominance

The role

Staff Robotics Engineers lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability for autonomous platforms. They drive the design, delivery, and evolution of vehicle autonomy through the entire product life-cycle.

What you will do

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap.
• Leverage internal engineering teams to deliver capability beyond current platforms.
• Partner with external teams on interfacing requirements.
• Lead teams to architect, design and implement navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems.
• Drive development of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures.
• Perform high impact IC work in architecture and implementation across the perception and planning stack.
• Utilize computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance capabilities.
• Conduct testing and validation of algorithms through simulation and real-world data analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software, mechanical, and systems engineers.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• Experienced and proficient in C++ and/or Python software development
• Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras
• Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning
• Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement validation and verification strategies
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous systems in the ground, air, maritime or space domains
• Experience with simulation tools and frameworks, such as Gazebo, Unity, or Unreal Engine
• Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems
• Familiarity with System Engineering concepts

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The Maritime Division creates software and hardware solutions for autonomous maritime systems.