Software Engineer, Autonomy (Maritime Robotics)

A maritime robotics company building uncrewed ocean vehicles is hiring a software engineer to develop the autonomy that runs on those vessels. You will write C++ that ships onto real hardware and contribute to a multi-year effort to expand what the vehicles can do on their own.

Responsibilities

• Write, test and ship production-grade C++ autonomy code for the company’s uncrewed vessels
• Create and combine algorithms covering navigation, planning, perception, localization, decision logic and avoidance of collisions and terrain
• Take part in sensor fusion work that blends radar, cameras and further sensor types, producing a single picture of the surroundings that feeds planning
• Develop route planning at both short-range and long-range scales, drawing on maps and sensor readings to pick routes and vehicle actions
• Weigh reliability, latency, compute cost, robustness and accuracy when selecting approaches for constrained onboard hardware
• Check autonomous behavior and track down failures by combining simulated runs, test results, logged telemetry and data from actual vehicles, building your own tools (often in Python) along the way
• Help shape how the company’s future autonomy platform is architected and how it evolves

Qualifications

• Five or more years in autonomy or robotics software, with strong C++
• Experience shipping algorithms on physical vehicles or hardware
• Hands-on work deciding how a vehicle or drone should move, such as motion planning, pathfinding, guidance or control
• Familiarity with sensor fusion, state estimation, tracking and handling noisy data
• Experience with self-driving cars, aerospace, defense or marine systems is a plus

Hybrid in the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or green card holders (ITAR eligible); no visa sponsorship or transfers.