Principal AI Autonomy Systems Integrator (UAS / SWARMING / C2 / EDGE AI)
General Dynamics Information Technology3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate autonomy stacks with UAS, multi-vehicle swarms, robotic platforms, sensors, payloads, radios, and tactical C2 systems.
- Build real-time autonomy pipelines spanning sensing, sensor fusion, perception, tracking, planning, control, and action execution.
- Deploy and optimize AI/ML models and autonomy services across embedded systems, GPUs/VPUs, edge clusters, bare metal, and tactical compute nodes.
- Build data pipelines and semantic alignment layers using trusted, structured, ontology-driven, and schema-governed data representations.
- Conduct simulation, field experiments, mission-thread validation, troubleshooting, and rapid problem resolution across autonomy and C2 interfaces.
- Integrate agent frameworks, multi-agent workflows, safety gates, oversight mechanisms, deterministic tool use, and human-on-the-loop operations.
- Implement resilient synchronization, secure communications, cross-domain interoperability, and open-architecture component integration.
- Translate mission problems into executable autonomy behaviors and train mission personnel on configuration, safety, deployment, and best practices.
Requirements
- BA/BS or equivalent education.
- 10+ years of experience in unmanned systems, autonomy engineering, robotics integration, or embedded AI/ML deployment.
- Direct experience integrating autonomy into UAS, drones, swarms, robotic vehicles, or similar platforms.
- Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and real-time or embedded software patterns.
- Expertise in motion planning, cooperative behaviors, obstacle avoidance, distributed coordination, sensor fusion, and real-time decision-making.
- Experience with ROS/ROS2, PX4/ArduPilot, MAVLink, and simulation tools such as Gazebo and AirSim.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, JAX, NVIDIA Jetson, VPUs, ruggedized x86 nodes, and tactical accelerators.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes including K3s/RKE2, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD.
- Understanding of C2 integration, tactical networks, degraded-communication workflows, ISR, counter-UAS, logistics autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and decision support.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance are required to start.
- Preferred experience includes distributed track fusion, detection/classification pipelines, multi-sensor correlation, mission-partner interoperability, cross-domain data release, provenance, auditability, safety-bounded autonomy, private 5G, tactical mesh networking, and mobile operations centers.
Benefits
- Remote work from any location with 25–50% travel and a 40-hour scheduled work week.
- Medical, dental, vision, HSA options, 401(k) with company match, paid vacation, sick and personal leave, holidays, and other paid leave programs.
- Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave, including up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
- Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
- Full-flex work weeks where possible, career development support, internal mobility resources, and a military-friendly workplace.
About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.