Staff Robotics Engineer - Surface Dominance

Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.

Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time

Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies

Lead teams that architect, design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Drive the development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures to deliver safe navigation and effective operation of Anduril’s autonomous vehicles

Perform high impact IC work in architecture and implementation across the whole perception and planning stack

Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles

Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure effective system integration and testing

Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience

Experienced and proficient in C++ and/or Python software development

Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras

Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning

Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system

Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution

Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules

Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity

Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Experience with autonomous systems in the ground, air, maritime or space domains

Experience with simulation tools and frameworks, such as Gazebo, Unity, or Unreal Engine, for algorithm validation and testing

Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems

Familiarity with System Engineering concepts

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