Staff Engineer: Autonomous Motion & Mission Planning

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design and build planning systems for autonomous ground support equipment in airport airside environments.

You will own mission, behavior, and motion planning and drive cross-team collaboration to deliver a production-grade autonomous driving stack. You will mentor engineers, set architectural direction, evaluate planning approaches, and promote best practices in safety-critical software alongside a strong emphasis on ownership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Math, EE, ME, robotics or physics.
• Hands-on experience designing planning modules for autonomous systems deployed in production or real-world ops.
• Strong programming in C++ (preferred) or Python; Linux experience.
• Ability to take ambiguous technical problems and drive to well-architected solutions.
• Excellent communication, proactiveness and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and iterate on mission, behavior and motion planners for autonomous ground support equipment in airport airside environments.
• Drive technical decisions across the planning stack: algorithms, interfaces, architecture.
• Prototype and evaluate planning approaches (optimization-based, search-based, learning-augmented) for production use.
• Collaborate with perception, controls, localization and systems engineering teams to deliver an integrated autonomous system.
• Establish and promote software development practices, safety and systems engineering in the planning domain.
• Mentor engineers through guidance, code reviews and design discussions.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics

Tools

ROS/ROS2

DDS frameworks

Job description

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design and build planning systems for autonomous ground support equipment in airport airside environments.

You will own mission, behavior, and motion planning and drive cross-team collaboration to deliver a production-grade autonomous driving stack. You will mentor engineers, set architectural direction, evaluate planning approaches, and promote best practices in safety-critical software alongside a strong emphasis on ownership