Senior Swarm Autonomy Engineer

APIUM Swarm Robotics - A Red Cat Company; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Apium Swarm Robotics (ASR) seeks a Senior Autonomous Behavior Engineer to design and deploy robust swarm behaviors across air, surface, and ground platforms. You will translate customer use cases into deployable autonomy primitives, work with QA on CI/CD pipelines, and validate behaviors in simulation, SITL, and live flight scenarios.

You will partner with mission engineers, field teams, and UI/UX to define intuitive control levers and reliable API surfaces, ensuring end-to-end operation from

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in robotics, autonomy, modeling and simulation or a closely related technical domain.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and demonstrated experience designing autonomous behaviors for multiple platforms.
• Solid foundation in linear algebra and vector math, including coordinate transforms and basic control/optimization concepts.
• Experience with simulation environments (Gazebo/ROS) and hardware-in-the-loop testing is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and field-validate new autonomous behaviors for ASR’s swarm platform from concept to deployment.
• Collaborate with mission engineers, customers, field teams to extract operational requirements and convert them into deployable code.
• Define operator levers and API surfaces with UI/UX and partner systems for seamless behavior control.
• Build and run simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and live-flight tests with clear pass/fail criteria.

Skills

C++

Robotics

Autonomy

Simulation

Linear algebra

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Tools

Gazebo

ROS

AirSim

SITL

Job description

Apium Swarm Robotics (ASR) seeks a Senior Autonomous Behavior Engineer to design and deploy robust swarm behaviors across air, surface, and ground platforms. You will translate customer use cases into deployable autonomy primitives, work with QA on CI/CD pipelines, and validate behaviors in simulation, SITL, and live flight scenarios.

You will partner with mission engineers, field teams, and UI/UX to define intuitive control levers and reliable API surfaces, ensuring end-to-end operation from