Software Engineer - Microservices Clearance Eligible

Summary

Join EpiSci as a Microservices Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tactical mission autonomy, designing and actualizing architectures and systems across various Tactical autonomy applications.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in computer science/related engineering field
• 6+ years of hands-on experience developing Python, and Rust software for autonomous robotic systems
• Experience in developing software for autonomous robotic systems in Python, and Rust
• Strong procedural and object-oriented programming experience that employs clean code principles and good design patterns
• Strong software architecture design experience
• 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, SonarQube, Azure Container registry
• Experience using microservice development and testing tools such as Kubernetes, Pytest, Grafana, Postman, and Hoverfly
• Experience with cross-language schema development and maintenance using tools such as Protobuf

Responsibilities

• Create and integrate software microservices that operate 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
• Collaborate with autonomy engineers to implement production level microservice architectures to control autonomous UASs
• Establish and improve software testing and debugging tools for autonomy solutions implemented as service-oriented architectures
• Implement, leverage and refactor, and improve state-of-the-art unmanned aerial system (UAS) autonomy algorithms in programming languages for the following autonomy categories to perform tactical military missions
• Autonomy loops such as: “Sense, Make Sense, Decide, Act (SMDA)” , “Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA)” loops., “Perceive, Decide, Act’ (PDA)” loops
• Sense: Environment sensing and modeling, computer vision, sensor processing, classification, anomaly detection
• Make Sense: Environment mapping, data interpretation, 3D voxel grids, GeoGrids, WGS84, aerospace coordinate systems and reference frames (north east down (NED), Geocentri & Geodetic latitudes, Earth-centered-inertial (ECI), earth centered earth fixed (ECEF)), no fly zones, keep-in/keep-out zones. Sensor fusion and target tracking, etc. Find, fix, track, target (F2T2)
• Decide: State machines, behavior trees, optimization algorithms, constraint solving, classic algorithms (A*, RRT*, DFS, BFS, Branch & Bound, Random Forests), heuristics, optimization, Kalman filters, particle filters, etc. Artificial intelligence techniques such as deep reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning, machine learning, neural networks, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, generic algorithms, Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic, etc
• Act: Autonomous 2D & 3D UAS trajectory/motion planning, route planning, SLAM. Classical controls systems, optimal control systems, adaptive control systems, model predictive control systems, especially for integration of 3rd party UAS autopilots. Guidance, navigation, and controls (GNC)
• 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 aircraft such as F16s, and 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

• Passion for solving complex problems with little supervision in a fast-moving team
• Ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, frequently changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate across multiple teams

Benefits

$100,000 - $190,000 a year