Senior Autonomy Behaviors Engineer

Yoh Services LLC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Yoh is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors to join our advanced technology client. You will design and deploy autonomy capabilities for unmanned platforms in complex environments, collaborating across software, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams.

The ideal candidate has deep robotics experience, strong C++ and Python skills, expertise in motion planning and decision-making, and a track record of delivering real-time, high-performance software for autonomous systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in robotics or autonomous systems with real-time software.
• Strong C++ and Python with real-time software experience.
• Experience with autonomy, motion planning, and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced autonomy algorithms for unmanned platforms in complex environments.
• Build high-performance software for autonomous planning, decision-making, and mission execution.
• Develop behavior architectures for multi-agent coordination and reconnaissance tasks.
• Combine traditional autonomy with ML approaches to create robust autonomous behaviors.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, simulation, systems, hardware, and flight-test teams for integration.
• Use simulation and field testing to validate algorithms and identify performance improvements.
• Analyze telemetry and logs to troubleshoot issues and improve autonomy performance.
• Support flight demonstrations, field testing, and operational validation events.

Skills

C++

Python

RTOS

Robotics

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in related technical discipline

Tools

AFSIM

NGTS

Job description

Yoh is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors to join our advanced technology client. You will design and deploy autonomy capabilities for unmanned platforms in complex environments, collaborating across software, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams.

The ideal candidate has deep robotics experience, strong C++ and Python skills, expertise in motion planning and decision-making, and a track record of delivering real-time, high-performance software for autonomous systems.