Autonomy Field Test & Integration Engineer (On Water)

REGENT; North Kingstown (RI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity incentive plan

Health, dental, and vision insurance –

401(k) with company matching

Flexible time off and parental leave

Relocation packages available

Daily catered lunches

Learning & professional development

Job summary

REGENT is seeking an Autonomy Test & Integration Engineer to move perception from bench to open ocean, building test infrastructure that connects real vessels with bench simulations. You’ll calibrate sensor rigs, run field tests, and expand replay hardware‑in‑the‑loop tooling while ensuring data quality and reliability.

Expect hands‑on work on boats and onshore development, including calibration tooling, integration of software changes to hardware, and designing autonomy test scenarios that

Qualifications

• Demonstrated professional experience in robotics, autonomy, or perception software, including hands‑on hardware‑in‑the‑loop or data‑replay work.
• Field deployment experience, ideally including sensor testing on boats or a comparable surrogate vehicle.
• Experience testing software on real hardware, from code review through deployment.
• Strong C/C++ for real‑time or embedded systems, working Python, and comfort administering Linux systems.
• Eligibility: this position is subject to U.S. export control regulations; applicants must be U.S. persons as defined by ITAR (22 CFR 120.62).
• Bonus: familiarity with autonomy algorithm concepts, ARPA radar tracking experience, boating or sea‑trials background, ground‑truth system experience, basic electrical troubleshooting, DO-178C familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Run perception field tests. Define what a test day must produce, set up and calibrate the perception sensor rigs, and run sensor tests on surrogate vessels with our test and operations team.
• Do hands‑on integration work. Bring software changes onto real vehicle hardware and troubleshoot what breaks in that transition, across every platform the team supports.
• Own the replay tooling. Operate and extend the hardware‑in‑the‑loop and data‑replay infrastructure the team's testing runs on, building on existing recording and evaluation tooling.
• Keep perception reliable. Track and maintain perception system reliability across every platform the team supports.
• Test and sign off on software changes. Review changes and decide when they're ready to move from the bench, to hardware‑in‑the‑loop replay, to a surrogate vessel, to a vehicle.
• Carry capability to missions. Take the perception capabilities the team builds and apply them to customer and U.S. defense missions, working with our mission software team to define the mission‑specific functions needed and bringing those needs back to the perception team.
• Define autonomy test scenarios. As our autonomy work grows beyond alerting, design the scenarios that prove out new autonomy algorithms and run them with our test and operations team.

Skills

Robotics experience

Autonomy software

Hardware-in-the-loop

Data replay tooling

C/C++ real-time

Python

Linux administration

Job description

REGENT is seeking an Autonomy Test & Integration Engineer to move perception from bench to open ocean, building test infrastructure that connects real vessels with bench simulations. You’ll calibrate sensor rigs, run field tests, and expand replay hardware‑in‑the‑loop tooling while ensuring data quality and reliability.

Expect hands‑on work on boats and onshore development, including calibration tooling, integration of software changes to hardware, and designing autonomy test scenarios that