Autonomy Engineer, Mission Systems Integration

Summary

Join a rapidly ascending force of innovation as a vital member of the growing EpiSci team, shaping the future of tactical mission autonomy and contributing to cutting-edge technologies that span defense, aerospace, and commercial domains.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/related engineering field
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with implementations of interoperability standards for military aircraft mission systems standards such as OMS UCI
• Experience with software programming languages: Python, C++
• Experience developing in Docker and containerized development environments, and using Linux-based operating systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu)
• Experience using git, Visual Studio Code, GitLab
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must be eligible for a U.S. SECRET security clearance with Special Access Program Eligibility

Responsibilities

• Build software that enables interoperability with military aircraft mission systems standards, such as OMS UCIL
• Develop adapters to existing standards for autonomous agent interfaces, such as tactical data links and on-board sensor data buses
• Implement, leverage and improve state-of-the-art publish/subscribe service-oriented-architecture standards for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) that perform tactical military missions using common autonomy loops
• Collaborate with autonomy engineers to implement service-oriented-architecture software and inter-process messaging systems for autonomous UASs
• Build, leverage, and improve robotic autonomy software architectures that can be deployed on real systems to accomplish military missions (including publish/subscribe architectures)
• Design autonomy software in collaboration with autonomy engineers that supports full integration with aircraft autopilots, datalinks, sensors, PNT/GPS/INS, ground control stations
• Support live flight test of autonomy software on military aircraft such as F16s, group 1-5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
• Collaborate with 3rd party UAS vehicle vendors on the integration of EpiSci autonomy software onto OEM UAS hardware
• Collaborate with domain experts and prior DoD warfighters (ex. DoD fighter pilots) to build software autonomy solutions for military missions

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science/related engineering field
• 6+ years of hands-on experience working with implementations of interoperability standards for military aircraft mission systems standards such as OMS UCI

Benefits

$100,000 - $190,000 a year