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Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4073)

Washington, DC💼 Full-time🗓 2025-08-15 → 2026-08-01

Core

Developing cutting-edge autonomy for unmanned aircraft operating across air, sea, and land domains by combining traditional autonomous systems algorithms with deep reinforcement learning-based solutions.

Role type

Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors

Builds

Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT/X-BAT aircraft systems for Department of Defense operations

Domain

Defense technology / Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) / Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

classical autonomous techniques, algorithms, and theory, deep reinforcement learning, tactical scenario planning, system integration

Preferred skills

solving complex problems across diverse domains and modalities, near-term program impact delivery

Technologies

deep reinforcement learning frameworks, classical autonomous algorithms

Responsibilities

Apply classical autonomous techniques and algorithms to various platforms in multiple tactical scenarios, integrate solutions into real-world problems with near-term program impacts, develop autonomy software for unmanned aircraft across DoD domains

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC

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