Sr. Software Engineer, Autonomy
Mariana Minerals4 hours ago
Houston, TX, USA or San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain onboard software for autonomous mining vehicles, including sensor drivers, data pipelines, and actuation commands.
- Own time synchronization and calibration across LiDAR, cameras, radar, IMU, and GNSS.
- Develop pipelines for moving vehicle sensor and telemetry data to the cloud, including logging, recording, and labeling.
- Build deployment, monitoring, and fault-management tooling for operating and updating a vehicle fleet.
- Develop equipment simulations, field-log replay, evaluation datasets, and robotics test infrastructure.
- Integrate drive-by-wire systems and implement low-level control logic, safety layers, degraded modes, and emergency-stop behavior.
- Collaborate with MineOS, mine operations, machine learning, hardware, and controls teams to expose vehicle health, faults, and metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 5–8+ years of experience building software for robots, vehicles, or other systems that act in the physical world.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and/or Python, with experience using Linux and robotics middleware such as ROS or ROS 2.
- Hands-on experience with sensor drivers, data pipelines, time synchronization, or calibration involving LiDAR, cameras, radar, IMU, or GNSS.
- Working knowledge of real-time and embedded systems, networking, and debugging across the software-hardware boundary.
- Experience with simulation, logging and replay, or robotics test and deployment infrastructure.
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive, or off-highway equipment is strongly preferred.
About Mariana Minerals
Mariana Minerals is a privately held, vertically integrated minerals company that mines and refines critical minerals and uses in‑house software, automation, and data systems to optimize operations. It supplies materials for modern energy, AI, and defense applications, combining chemical refining with plant‑level controls and optimization tools. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and targets OEMs and manufacturers across energy, battery, and defense supply chains.