Senior Autonomy Engineer: Perception to Planning

AeroVect; Washington (Washington County); On-site; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, delivering a real-world autonomous system for aviation services. We seek a Principal Engineer for Autonomy to own end-to-end capability across perception, prediction and planning, with cross-stack influence and hands-on leadership.

This is a senior IC role reporting to the VP of Engineering, with no direct reports. You will steer technical direction, ship concrete autonomy features, and drive real-world deployment on vehicles, partnering

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on experience building production autonomy systems.
• Shipping autonomy components that run in real vehicles at scale.
• Experience as the most senior individual contributor in an autonomy organization.
• Deepest technical depth in perception, prediction, or planning.
• Strong software fundamentals in C++ and Python.
• Fluency with modern deep learning for autonomy.
• Experience working with ROS/ROS 2 and real-time on-vehicle compute.
• Bias for execution — ship and run code on a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Own the perception stack design and evolution across detection, classification, tracking and fusion.
• Own the prediction stack for intent inference, behavior forecasting, and edge-case handling.
• Own the planning and decision-making stack from behaviors to domain-specific maneuvers.
• Set cross-stack technical direction and align with other senior autonomy engineers.
• Own the autonomy stack architecture and collaborate with neighboring teams.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS 2

Autonomy systems

Distributed systems

Job description

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, delivering a real-world autonomous system for aviation services. We seek a Principal Engineer for Autonomy to own end-to-end capability across perception, prediction and planning, with cross-stack influence and hands-on leadership.

This is a senior IC role reporting to the VP of Engineering, with no direct reports. You will steer technical direction, ship concrete autonomy features, and drive real-world deployment on vehicles, partnering