Staff Autonomy Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers bringing up all components necessary for reliable autonomous driving in the airside environment, including vehicle corridors and the apron.
• Design, implement, test, and support all aspects of ground vehicle autonomy, including planning, prediction, perception, localization, controls, and infrastructure subsystems
• Qualify all subsystems using objective measures, with an eye to functional safety and systems engineering best practices
• Collaborate with vehicle engineering to create an integrated system, including sensor/compute selection and integration
• Understand and keep up-to-date with state of the art

Requirements

• Strong CS fundamentals (via industry or research experience)
• Background in developing the autonomy (perception, localization, and planning) functions of a deployed, autonomous vehicle
• 5+ years high-performing engineering experience
• 2+ years experience leading robotics software engineering teams
• Industrial automation experience shipping safety-critical software
• Experience shipping a working robotics or vehicle autonomy system
• Candidates with unconventional experiences especially encouraged
• Willingness to get hands-on and have lots of fun
• Ideal Qualifications
• PhD / advanced research or industry experience in vehicle autonomy or robotics
• Background in safety-critical software/system development (preferably a ground robotics functional safety standard such as ISO 26262 or IEC 61508)
• Prior experience developing and supporting all aspects of autonomy for a production ground-vehicle system, or research prototype (end-to-end, full lifecycle development preferred)
• Startup experience in an engineering leadership role
• Experience with ROS
• AeroVect is a technology company that applies the latest advances in autonomous driving systems to create today the logistics centers and air cargo operations of the future. We work with major hubs around the world to bring self-driving tow tractors to life.
• Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Additional Information

We are looking for a Staff Engineer who knows how to bring world-class system design to autonomous driving systems in structured, low-speed environments. In this role, you'll lead, manage and scale our core autonomy software team at a fast-paced, early-stage startup. Leveraging your experience building production-grade systems, you'll propel the AeroVect Driver to the next level, achieving category-defining vehicle autonomy for the airport operational design domain. Your scope will include leading the system design and implementation of key improvements to critical modules that include planning, prediction, perception, localization, and controls, incorporating both cutting-edge techniques as well as proven, off-the-shelf approaches to support all autonomous driving and towing functions, creating unprecedented value and functionality for the modern supply chain. The opportunity offers a technical, hands-on team leader the chance to help develop a market-defining enterprise product that combines autonomous vehicle technology with a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. This role reports directly to our co-founders.

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