Lead Autonomy Software Engineer - Large Air

The Lead Autonomy Software Engineer is a key technical contributor and excels when leading small engineering teams. In this role, you will develop and integrate cutting edge technologies into mission autonomy solutions intended for Group 3-5 unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Mission autonomy enables autonomous agents or teams to conduct strategic decision-making and coordinated actions toward longer-term operational objectives through persistent world modeling, predictive simulation, and adaptive planning under uncertainty and adversarial conditions.

Essential Functions:

• Lead a team to develop innovative solutions to address technical challenges derived from customer requirements.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in emerging mission autonomy technologies.

• Support or lead marketing and proposal efforts in mission autonomy.

• Support or lead managing and tasking team to achieve program’s milestones.  

• Take primary responsibility for prime and customer-facing interactions. 

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in mission autonomy and other areas relevant to Scientific Systems. 

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to advance R&D roadmaps,

• The role does require the ability to sit or stand at a desk and work on a computer for prolonged periods of