Senior Autonomy Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Autonomy Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to own the autonomy and perception stack for our autonomous underwater vehicle platform from the ground up. You'll join a ~7-person team building attritable UUVs that operate in radio-denied environments, making all navigation, detection, and targeting decisions independently. This is a greenfield opportunity — you'll architect and ship production autonomy software on hardware (Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX) that has never been deployed on an autonomous underwater vehicle before. We need someone who thrives in early-stage, high-urgency environments and has actually built and deployed autonomy systems on real-world platforms. You'll report directly to the Head of Autonomy & Software and help shape the technical direction of the entire autonomy org.

What will you be doing?

- Designing and implementing the full autonomy stack from scratch — mission planning, path planning, object detection/recognition, obstacle avoidance, and autonomous decision-making for underwater operations

- Developing both ML-based and classical perception pipelines that run efficiently on power-constrained embedded compute (Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX)

- Taking the vehicle from prototype to executing real 3-day autonomous missions within your first 90 days

- Supporting field testing — deploying scale models in dive pools, running sea trials in the ocean, and performing live telemetry debugging from shore

- Owning your system end-to-end as a Responsible Engineer: from requirements and architecture through simulation, field validation, and production deployment