Autonomy Engineer

Based onsite in South San Francisco — design, build, and test all happen in one building, and being near the machines is most of the point

Flexible within that. You own your calendar: work the hours where you’re sharpest, and go remote on heads-down days.

Expect a few days a month in the field across California, Oregon, and Washington. Watching your work run on a live burn is the best part of the job.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $150,000 – $200,000 — final offers reflect experience and demonstrated scope.

Equity — Incentive Stock Options

Health, dental, and vision

Flexible paid time off

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A treatment unit is unmapped, sloped, covered in fuel, and sometimes on fire. Our machines have to cover it completely, stay where they’re supposed to be, and stop when something is wrong — often with one operator supervising more than one machine.

You’ll own the autonomy that makes that work: planning, controls, state estimation, and the safety behavior around all of it.

Coverage and motion planning over real terrain — slope, obstacles, traversability, and treatment boundaries that must not be crossed

Controls for heavy tracked and wheeled machines on loose, sloped, uneven ground

State estimation and localization where GPS is intermittent and the canopy is against you

Safety behavior: geofencing, fault detection, degraded modes, and stopping logic you would stand next to

Supervised autonomy — the handoff between operator and machine, and everything that makes one person able to run several

Validation in simulation and in the dirt, with the field always the tiebreaker