Mission Systems Lead, Omen

What you'll do

• Build and lead the Mission Systems team and set its technical standards and roadmap.
• Own mission autonomy, perception, and payload system design and integration, including interfaces with vehicle software and external payload vendors.
• Lead demonstrations and testing from laboratory environments through Omen; travel for tests, vendor collaboration, and customer engagements up to 25%.

What they ask for

• Experience as a Senior or staff robotics or software development engineer.
• Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization.
• Experience developing and sustaining distributed software platform and application architectures under dynamic network topologies; experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust).
• Deep understanding of autonomous systems, product delivery lifecycle, vehicle management systems, Systems Engineering concepts, and modular open systems approaches; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with safety-critical software, autonomous vehicle perception or navigation in GPS-denied environments, uncrewed-system mission tools, or payload integration.

Pay

$260,000 — $345,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, C++, Rust

AI focus

Develops autonomous aircraft mission systems, including mission autonomy, perception, world modeling, and safe navigation; the posting does not specify building AI models.