Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Planning Systems

AeroVect Technologies Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build planning systems for autonomous driving in airport airside environments.

You will own the production-grade mission, behavior, and motion planners and shape the planning stack for ground support equipment. This role offers deep technical ownership, cross-functional collaboration with perception, controls, localization, and systems engineering teams, and mentorship of engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing planning modules for autonomous systems.
• Strong C++ and/or Python programming with Linux experience.
• Ability to take ambiguous technical problems and drive them to well-architected solutions independently.
• Excellent communication skills, proactiveness, and a strong sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and iterate on the mission planner, behavior planner, and motion planner for autonomous ground support equipment operating in airport airside environments.
• Drive key technical decisions across the planning stack — selecting algorithms, defining interfaces, and establishing the architecture that the team builds on.
• Prototype and evaluate new planning approaches (e.g., optimization-based methods, search-based planners, learning-augmented pipelines) and bring the best ideas to production.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with perception, controls, localization, and systems engineering teams to deliver an integrated autonomous driving system.
• Establish and promote best practices in software development, functional safety, and systems engineering as they apply to the planning domain.
• Mentor other engineers through technical guidance, code review, and design discussions.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Math/EE/ME/Robotics/Physics

Tools

ROS/ROS2

DDS frameworks

MISRA

ISO 26262

Job description

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build planning systems for autonomous driving in airport airside environments.

You will own the production-grade mission, behavior, and motion planners and shape the planning stack for ground support equipment. This role offers deep technical ownership, cross-functional collaboration with perception, controls, localization, and systems engineering teams, and mentorship of engineers.