Senior Autonomy Architect for Underwater Robotics

Bedrock Ocean Exploration; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Ocean Exploration seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to set the autonomy direction for a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles. You will own the architecture tying onboard software, GNC, sensing, and mission autonomy to run long campaigns reliably and scale across vehicles.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive testing from simulation to field trials, and champion safe, deployable software with over-the-air updates. This role demands deep robotics judgment and leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building robotics or autonomous-systems software.
• Commercial production robotics experience shipping at scale.
• Robust, modular vehicle/software architecture experience.
• Safety-critical systems deployed in the field; willingness to on-call.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the vehicle software system with modular design.
• Lead cross-disciplinary robotics problems end to end.
• Set and raise standards for building, testing, and validation.
• Drive rigorous testing across simulation, HIL, and field trials.
• Improve autonomy and vehicle behaviors for long missions.
• Oversee fault management, health, and safe-state behaviors.
• Share on-call rotation and build runbooks, telemetry, escalation paths.
• Design for fleet-scale with OTA deployment, versioning, rollback.
• Ensure reliable data capture, time sync, and onboard quality checks.
• Mentor engineers, drive technical alignment, and foster knowledge sharing.
• Champion practical AI adoption within robotics workflow.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

GNC

State estimation

Sensor fusion

Vehicle autonomy

Tools

ROS 2

Job description

Bedrock Ocean Exploration seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to set the autonomy direction for a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles. You will own the architecture tying onboard software, GNC, sensing, and mission autonomy to run long campaigns reliably and scale across vehicles.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive testing from simulation to field trials, and champion safe, deployable software with over-the-air updates. This role demands deep robotics judgment and leadership.