Engineering Manager, Autonomy Planning & Behaviors
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MerlinAerospace, Robotics
Boston or RemoteFull-TimeManager
Salary$180,000 - $240,000 a year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonMachine LearningSoftware ArchitectureC++
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject.
- Years of professional experience developing software for airborne autonomous systems.
- Subject matter expert in mission management frameworks (behavior trees, HTN, state machines, petri nets), multi-vehicle autonomy, contingency management, or machine learning for decision making.
- Years of experience providing tech leadership to a team of at least 4 engineers at different levels.
- Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, unit testing, and peer review.
- Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at system and component levels.
- Proficiency writing both Python and C++.
- Familiarity with simulation software, especially aircraft simulation.
- Experience with proposal writing and technical roadmap development.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical direction and deliver autonomous decision making, behavior execution, and motion planning capabilities for airborne systems.
- Define the research, experiments, and development projects that support delivering mission autonomy capabilities.
- Identify gaps and define staffing needs to develop and deliver decision making and behavior capabilities.
- Ensure the decision making, behaviors, and motion planning technical plans align with short term R&D objectives, long term objectives, and the Merlin technology roadmap.
- Lead architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis, accounting for short term objectives and long term goals in decision making.
- Step in to a hands-on software development role as needed.
- Support simulation, integration, and flight test activities to validate real-world performance.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
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