Multi-Agent Teaming Autonomy Engineer

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
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing multi-agent teaming software for autonomous robotic systems
• Experience with C++/Python Autonomy algorithms
• Experience in one or more of the following: State Machines, Behavior Trees, Resource Allocation, Task Planning, Machine Learning, Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Experience developing decision making AI for autonomous unmanned systems
• Experience with Python
• Strong procedural and object-oriented programming experience that employs clean code principles and good OOP design patterns/principles
• 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
• Experience working with best-effort communication systems, serialization, message schema development, and state synchronization

Responsibilities

• Build decision making architectures for coordination of actions across teams of homogeneous or heterogeneous autonomous agents
• Build autonomous products that operate in real world environments with limited human interaction
• Develop and implement techniques to promote explainability within the decision-making architecture
• Write software that operates real autonomous aircraft systems including F16 fighter jets, group 1-5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as simulated models to accomplish tactical military missions
• Implement, leverage and improve state-of-the-art decision-making technology for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) that to perform tactical military missions using common autonomy loops: Autonomy loops such as: “Sense, Make Sense, Decide, Act (SMDA)” , “Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA)” loops., “Perceive, Decide, Act’ (PDA)” loops
• Collaborate with autonomy engineers to implement production level software 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, etc
• 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

Benefits

$120,000 - $180,000 a year