Autonomy Software Engineer – Underwater Robotics

MBN Solutions; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ~0.5%

Job summary

MBN Solutions is partnering with an early-stage defense technology company to build autonomous underwater vehicles. You will architect, implement and deploy production autonomy software on real hardware, working directly with the Head of Autonomy & Software and a small, highly technical founding team.

The platform must navigate, perceive its environment and execute extended missions independently, without relying on continuous communications or human intervention.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional experience in autonomy, robotics, perception or closely related software engineering.
• Strong production-level C++ and Python skills.
• Experience building and deploying autonomy software on real-world robotic platforms.
• Knowledge of motion or path planning, autonomous decision-making, perception, sensor fusion or localisation.
• Experience with computer vision, machine learning or classical perception techniques.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and implementing the autonomy stack, including mission planning and obstacle avoidance.
• Developing perception pipelines using ML and classical techniques.
• Building software for power-constrained embedded compute (NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX).
• Integrating sensor data for reliable navigation in underwater conditions.
• Taking autonomy capabilities from simulation through hardware validation to production deployment.
• Supporting testing in dive pools and live ocean environments.
• Owning end-to-end systems from requirements to deployment.
• Helping establish the foundations of a growing autonomy engineering organization.

Skills

Autonomy software engineering

Robotics

Perception

Software engineering

Tools

C++

Python

ROS

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

CUDA

NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX

Linux

Git

Docker

SIL/HIL Simulation

Sensor Fusion

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

Job description

MBN Solutions is partnering with an early-stage defense technology company to build autonomous underwater vehicles. You will architect, implement and deploy production autonomy software on real hardware, working directly with the Head of Autonomy & Software and a small, highly technical founding team.

The platform must navigate, perceive its environment and execute extended missions independently, without relying on continuous communications or human intervention.