Autonomy Lead for Next-Gen Autonomous Vehicles

Syos Aerospace; Tauranga; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SYOS Aerospace is seeking a Senior Autonomy Engineer to shape the autonomy capability behind our next generation of autonomous vehicles. You will mentor engineers, provide technical leadership across GNC, perception, sensor fusion, and machine learning, and drive development from modelling to real-world deployment.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to translate ambitious ideas into reliable autonomous systems and help SYOS scale its autonomy capability across air, land and sea.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in autonomy engineering, robotics, GNC or related discipline.
• Experience on complex autonomous systems and cross-discipline integration.
• Mentoring engineers and leading technical direction.
• Strong fundamentals in navigation, control, perception and sensor fusion.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical expert and mentor within the autonomy engineering team.
• Provide technical leadership across autonomy, GNC, perception, sensor fusion, ML and computer vision.
• Guide engineers through complex technical challenges and support sound engineering decisions.
• Develop and improve autonomy solutions for UAV, UGV and USV platforms.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical direction across multiple autonomous platforms.
• Work from modelling and simulation through embedded implementation, integration, testing and real-world deployment.
• Apply systems-level thinking to understand requirements, interfaces, dependencies and interactions across the vehicle.
• Review and challenge technical approaches, designs and engineering decisions.

Skills

Autonomy engineering

Robotics

GNC

Software development

Mechatronics

Systems thinking

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Mechatronics

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

PX4

ArduPilot

Job description

SYOS Aerospace is seeking a Senior Autonomy Engineer to shape the autonomy capability behind our next generation of autonomous vehicles. You will mentor engineers, provide technical leadership across GNC, perception, sensor fusion, and machine learning, and drive development from modelling to real-world deployment.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to translate ambitious ideas into reliable autonomous systems and help SYOS scale its autonomy capability across air, land and sea.