Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Integration - R6035

Job Description:

What you'll do:

• Build and maintain stable Pilot integration environments, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and representative end-to-end examples. 
• Partner with component teams as they add capabilities to the shared integration environment, maintain the integration baseline, and help resolve gaps in shared workflows, test harnesses, or extensibility. 
• Develop and maintain automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests that exercise behavior across autonomy components. 
• Integrate and debug production software across planning and controls, simulation, vehicle interfaces, and other parts of the autonomy stack. 
• Investigate failures across system boundaries. Reproduce and instrument each problem, isolate the responsible layer, fix integration-owned defects, and give the owning team clear evidence when a component or infrastructure change is required. 
• Develop integration-oriented bridge blocks and adaptors for common vehicle and hardware interfaces, along with the tests and documentation needed to maintain them. 
• Improve repeatability with focused integration tooling for configuration validation, deployment, diagnostics, log collection, test orchestration, and failure triage. 
• Support deployment of the integrated autonomy stack to representative hardware, including software configuration, telemetry, interface troubleshooting, and lab or field debugging. 
• Work with the flight-test team to define test objectives, prepare integrated software and instrumentation, assess test readiness, support troubleshooting during test events, and analyze integration failures afterward. 
• Write and maintain setup guides, reference configurations, troubleshooting runbooks, and executable examples. Contribute technical material to Pilot training. 
• Surface brittle interfaces and recurring integration problems so that the responsible Pilot teams can make informed architectural decisions. 
• Improve integration quality by reducing integration defects and increasing end-to-end test readiness. 

Required qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a field such as computer science or robotics, or equivalent practical experience. 
Experience developing or integrating planning, controls, or autonomy decision-making software. 
Strong production software engineering skills in modern C++ and Python. 
Hands-on experience integrating software with robotic or autonomous hardware, including deployment, interfaces, telemetry, and lab or field debugging. 
Experience with software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing and automated system-level tests. 
Experience developing and debugging software on Linux. 
Strong systems-debugging skills, including the ability to reason across configuration, software, network, timing, and hardware boundaries. 
Ability to write maintainable tests and tools for distributed or real-time systems. 
Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and work effectively with engineers from several disciplines. 
Ability to travel periodically and support lab, field, or flight-test events that may occur outside normal working hours. 

Preferred qualifications:

Experience integrating across several autonomy domains, such as perception, state estimation, planning, controls, simulation, communications, or vehicle interfaces. 
Experience supporting aircraft integration or flight-test readiness. 
Experience with robotics middleware, vehicle protocols such as MAVLink, or integration adaptors. 
Experience designing repeatable, diagnosable end-to-end test environments for complex autonomous systems. 
Experience with configuration-driven systems, dependency compatibility, observability, or automated test orchestration. 
Experience delivering software for fielded, real-time, safety-critical, or resource-constrained systems. 
A record of leading ambiguous technical investigations or mentoring engineers through complex integration work.