Autonomy Systems Engineering Lead

SYOS Aerospace; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SYOS Aerospace is seeking an Autonomy Engineering Team Lead to guide a 7–10 person team across autonomy, robotics, ML, CV and GNC. The role emphasizes people leadership and building a high-performing culture while delivering complex autonomy programs.

You will mentor engineers, align workstreams with product goals, and partner with multiple technical leads to drive integration and continuous improvement across autonomous systems.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of 7–10 autonomy engineers.
• Build a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
• Set goals, manage performance and support career development.
• Plan workload, priorities and delivery across multiple programmes.
• Partner closely with GNC, Software, Systems, Mechatronics, Electronics and Flight Test technical leaders.
• Provide direction and support on complex autonomy and integration challenges.
• Drive best practices, ways of working and continuous improvement across the autonomy team.
• Help develop the capability, structure and technical maturity of the team as SYOS scales.
• Encourage engineers to explore new technologies and bring big ideas into real-world systems.
• Support technical leaders without needing to be the hands-on expert in every domain.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Autonomy engineering

Mechatronics

Cross-disciplinary teams

GNC systems

ROS/ROS2

Tools

PX4

ArduPilot

C++

Python

Job description

SYOS Aerospace is seeking an Autonomy Engineering Team Lead to guide a 7–10 person team across autonomy, robotics, ML, CV and GNC. The role emphasizes people leadership and building a high-performing culture while delivering complex autonomy programs.

You will mentor engineers, align workstreams with product goals, and partner with multiple technical leads to drive integration and continuous improvement across autonomous systems.