Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning

<h3>What you'll do:</h3><li>Develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across air, land, sea, and space domains with minimal human supervision</li><li>Implement and test behaviors that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios</li><li>Work throughout the entire of the software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing tools and workflows consistent with collaborative high-quality software development</li><li>Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and to enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios</li><li>Utilize your software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, that may interact directly or indirectly with a breadth of system components (e.g., sensor processing, state estimation, peer-to-peer communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload interfacing)</li><li>Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to vehicle platforms (whether internally and externally owned), with a clear path towards architecture and capability evolution over time</li><li>Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often working closely with vehicle integration teams and associated operational subject matter experts (e.g., fighter pilots, UAV operators, etc.)</li><li>Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.</li><li>Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time</li><h3>Required qualifications:</h3><li>BS /MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field</li><li>Proficient in production-level C++ software development</li><li>7+ years' experience in one or more of the following: software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls</li><li>Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management</li><li>Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment</li><li>Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity</li><li>Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast paced, enthusiastic, and mission-centric environment</li><li>Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution<br>Preferred qualifications:</li><li>Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready</li><li>Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations</li><li>Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to:</li><li>Collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming</li><li>Automated red force vs blue force tactics</li><li>Motion planning across a variety of vehicle classes, kinematic constraints, and team compositions</li><li>Weapons target assignment, Sensor target pairing, sensor-centric control laws</li><li>Collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety-monitoring</li><li>Experience in more than one operational effect (e.g., strike, air combat, surveillance,</li>