Senior Autonomy Engineer — Lead & Mentor, NZ Relocation

SYOS Aerospace; Mount Maunganui; Presencial; NZD 140 000 - 180 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

SYOS Aerospace, based in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, seeks a Senior Autonomy Engineer to shape the autonomy capability behind our autonomous vehicles. You will lead across guidance, navigation and control, perception, sensor fusion, ML, computer vision and autonomous decision‑making, mentoring engineers and guiding robust, deployable systems.

This role emphasizes systems thinking, hands‑on problem solving and collaboration with engineering leaders across software, systems, mechatronics and

Qualificações

• Significant experience in autonomy engineering, robotics, GNC, software, mechatronics or a related discipline.
• Experience on complex autonomous systems and how engineering disciplines integrate.
• Ability to operate as a senior technical contributor or lead.
• Strong understanding of autonomy concepts: navigation, control, perception, sensor fusion and autonomous decision‑making.

Responsabilidades

• 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 and interactions across the vehicle.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure autonomy solutions integrate with the broader system.
• Establish engineering best practices, standards and ways of working across autonomy.
• Partner with Software, Systems, Mechatronics, Electronics and Flight Test teams to solve multidisciplinary problems.
• Review and challenge technical approaches, designs and engineering decisions.
• Mentor and coach engineers to raise technical capability.
• Stay across emerging autonomy technologies and identify improvement opportunities.
• Get hands-on when required for complex problems, integration and testing.
• Translate ambitious ideas into reliable technology that performs in the real world.

Conhecimentos

Autonomy engineering

Robotics

GNC

Technical leadership

Systems thinking

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Formação académica

Bachelors/Masters in Aerospace/Robotics/EE/Mechatronics

Ferramentas

MATLAB/Simulink

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

PX4

ArduPilot

Descrição da oferta de emprego

SYOS Aerospace, based in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, seeks a Senior Autonomy Engineer to shape the autonomy capability behind our autonomous vehicles. You will lead across guidance, navigation and control, perception, sensor fusion, ML, computer vision and autonomous decision‑making, mentoring engineers and guiding robust, deployable systems.

This role emphasizes systems thinking, hands‑on problem solving and collaboration with engineering leaders across software, systems, mechatronics and