Company Overview:

Our VC-backed client provides tech solutions for a variety of industries including automotive, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and defense – they are focused on all things autonomous.

This is NOT REMOTE. It’s in-person in the DC Metro office (NoVA)

Position: 

We are looking for a Software Engineer with software design experience and who can develop the software architecture of an initial AV stack. This engineer will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of this new project in the defense space.

Responsibilities: 

• Map autonomous customer use cases and ODD into specific system capabilities and functional requirements
• Enable design decisions on software architecture based on industry best practices in autonomous technology development
• Work with domain experts to support implementation of key components of the required system from perception through controls
• Work with customer teams to ensure that the platform under development can be deployed on target hardware
• Guide autonomous platform verification and validation strategies to ensure system quality

Requirements: 

• MS or PhD in robotics or a closely related field
• 3+ years of experience in autonomous vehicle system design including familiarity with different technologies and tradeoffs involved in selecting options
• 3+ years of experience developing and shipping AV software
• 2+ years of experience using simulation tools to support AV development

Nice to have:

• Expertise in methods and tools for engineering design, verification and validation, or a similar related areas
• Deep expertise with specific modules of systems (eg. perception) to effectively contribute towards building that capability
• Experience integrating common vendors of AV technology
• Knowledge of common production considerations including middleware and performance constraints
• Exposure to hardware systems and design tradeoffs required to deploy software on customer platforms

Compensation:

• Mid to High $200K’s OTE + Equity