Autonomy Software Engineer – Robotics for UAV Platforms

Tycho AI Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Generous benefits package

Job summary

A growing technology firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is seeking experienced software engineers to develop on-board and off-board software for unmanned aerial vehicles. The ideal candidate will contribute to important autonomy systems, utilizing skills in C++ and Python. Responsibilities include software design and optimization, integration with platforms, and maintaining coding standards in a collaborative environment. The role offers competitive salary, equity, and benefits within a high-trust culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of software development experience in C++ environment.
• Strong coding skills in C++ or Python (ideally both).
• Strong software engineering architecture, abstraction and design skills.
• Hands-on experience writing software for robotics and/or computer vision applications.
• Experience with Robotics middleware (such as ROS2 or protobuf), and Linux based software development.
• Experience with Git, code review, integration testing, CI/CD.
• Experience with test driven development, evaluation, integration and burndown testing.
• Experience implementing software interfaces to other onboard or offboard software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize software to enable robotics tasks.
• Design, develop, and optimize software to interface with internal and external stakeholder software.
• Integrate new capabilities into real-world platforms, bridging research and production.
• Write and supervise the development of clean, efficient, and maintainable code in C++ and Python.
• Contribute to robust software development and test pipelines for large-scale dataset based test evaluation and resimulation.

Job description

A growing technology firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is seeking experienced software engineers to develop on-board and off-board software for unmanned aerial vehicles. The ideal candidate will contribute to important autonomy systems, utilizing skills in C++ and Python. Responsibilities include software design and optimization, integration with platforms, and maintaining coding standards in a collaborative environment. The role offers competitive salary, equity, and benefits within a high-trust culture.