Senior Software Engineer, Mission Perception, Planning, and Operations

What you'll do

• Build perception pipelines and object detection and tracking for sonar, radar, and EO/IR data.
• Develop mission-planning algorithms, operator interfaces, and real-time execution software for autonomous maritime operations.
• Integrate and test mission systems with vehicle and platform systems, improving performance against operational requirements.

What they ask for

• 7+ years in autonomous systems software, robotics, perception, or real-time systems.
• Experience building software for field-deployed autonomous systems; depth in at least one of perception, mission planning, or runtime execution, with working knowledge of the others.
• Proficiency in real-time software development and demonstrated ability to manage complex state in production systems.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance; ability to receive, process, and disposition encrypted data.

Nice to have

• Maritime or underwater autonomy experience; sonar or radar signal processing background.
• ROS or equivalent robotics middleware background; experience with autonomous-system planning or scheduling algorithms.

Pay

$220,000 — $292,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

sonar, radar, EO/IR, ROS

AI focus

Develops perception, planning, and runtime execution software for maritime autonomous vehicles, including object detection, classification, tracking, and real-time decision-making.