Engineering Manager Autonomy Planning and Behaviors
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You will lead the technical direction for autonomous decision-making, behavior execution, and motion-planning capabilities. You will define research and development work, identify staffing needs, lead architecture trade-off analysis, contribute to software development, and support simulation, integration, and flight-test validation.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical direction for autonomous decision-making, behavior execution, and motion-planning capabilities
- Define research, experiments, and development projects
- Identify staffing needs
- Align technical plans with research and technology-roadmap objectives
- Lead architecture design and technology trade-off analysis
- Contribute to hands-on software development
- Support simulation, integration, and flight-test validation
Requirements
- Computer science, aerospace engineering, robotics engineering, or related degree
- Professional experience developing software for airborne autonomous systems
- Expertise in mission management, vehicle autonomy, resource allocation, decision-making, contingency management, or machine learning
- Technical leadership experience for a team of at least four engineers
- Version control
- Pipeline
- Unit testing
- Peer review
- Product development lifecycle experience
- Python
- C++
- Aircraft simulation familiarity
- Proposal writing
- Technical roadmap development
- Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Benefits
- Equity grants
- Catered lunches
- Snacks
- Coffee, tea, and other beverages
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Unlimited vacation
- 401k with match
- Work/life integration