Autonomy Software Engineer
Merlin Labsover 2 years ago
Remote, United States or Boston, MA, USAMid LevelNo H1B sponsorship
Base Salary
$130k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop software across the aircraft autonomy stack, including lower-level embedded systems and higher-level autonomy functions.
- Implement and integrate algorithms for perception, reasoning, decision making, planning, and execution for autonomous airborne operations.
- Collaborate with domain leads on architecture, requirements, and design intent.
- Contribute to simulation, system integration, and flight testing to validate autonomy software.
- Write, test, document, and review maintainable code according to development standards.
- Collaborate across the company to develop novel, certifiable aviation and autonomy systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, robotics, or a related field plus 3 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree plus 2 or more years of relevant experience.
- Experience developing software for robotic or autonomous systems.
- Experience with state machines, behavior trees, or task planning algorithms.
- Experience with route, path, and trajectory planning.
- Experience with Linux and open-source development tools.
- Experience across the product development cycle, including design, testing, troubleshooting, and system-level and component-level software work.
- Experience with both Python and C++.
- Experience with ROS, DDS, or similar robotics middleware.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to contribute across technical domains.
- Preferred experience with aircraft, drone, or other high-integrity autonomy systems; perception, sensor fusion, or world modeling; multi-agent collaboration; human-machine interfaces; system integration; simulation; flight testing; hardware/software integration; or pilot licensing and flight experience.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and life insurance.
- Unlimited vacation and a 401k with company match.
- Startup environment with professional development support and work/life integration.
H1B sponsorship
No H1B sponsorship
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