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Staff Engineer, Autonomy Factory Pipeline (R5276)

Washington, DC💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop automated testing frameworks, log analysis tools, and scenario-generation scripts to verify AI Pilot behaviors and enable rapid validation of autonomy software across secure and commercial ecosystems.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Autonomy Factory Pipeline (Software Engineering)

Builds

Automated testing pipelines, data analysis suites, and distributed orchestration templates for the Hivemind Platform (HMP) SDK.

Domain

Defense technology, AI autonomy, simulation engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Python (data analysis, scripting, automation), C++, automated test orchestration, CI/CD, container-based architectures (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux debugging, version control (Git), Terraform, Kubernetes configuration

Preferred skills

Distributed compute frameworks, generative AI tooling, agentic AI workflows

Technologies

Python, C++, NumPy, Pandas, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Hivemind Platform (HMP) SDK, HM Forge, ROS bags

Responsibilities

Write and optimize Python-based data analysis pipelines to parse simulation runs and calculate mission performance metrics; Develop custom C++ or Python adapters and test orchestration wrappers around HM Forge; Implement programmatic scenario-generation pipelines using domain randomization; Analyze simulation log files and network captures to debug autonomy software defects; Build reusable agentic workflows to automate the generation and evolution of analysis suites; Build, test, and write Terraform or Kubernetes configuration files to deploy distributed orchestration templates; Design and evolve common telemetry ingestion, analysis, and reporting frameworks.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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