Autonomous Systems Engineer

About the role

Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, professional turf-care equipment, and ground support equipment. Our vehicles are found in environments ranging from golf courses to factories, airports to planned communities, and theme parks to hunting preserves.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain vehicle localization architecture utilizing GNSS/RTK, LiDAR, visual localization, inertial navigation, and sensor fusion techniques.
• Develop behavior planning, motion planning, and vehicle control algorithms for autonomous navigation.
• Optimize computational performance, latency, and resource utilization on embedded computer platforms.
• Develop and maintain system requirements, interface specifications, and validation plans.
• Integrate autonomous hardware and software with vehicle electrical, controls, and sensor systems.
• Ensure the system performs reliably in real-world field conditions and support field testing and debugging.
• Work with cross-functional leads such as product strategy to help define features and product requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, or similar programming language; ROS2 architecture required.

Skills

• Required: Autonomy stacks such as NAV2, sensor fusion (GPS, IMU, LiDAR, camera), experience with real-time embedded or robotic systems, hands-on debugging and tuning in real-world environments.
• Preferred: ROS2 (C++/Python) and robotics system integration, navigation algorithms (A*, DWA, Pure Pursuit, MPC), RTK GPS integration and localization techniques, vehicle control systems (CAN, drive-by-wire), simulation integration (Isaac Sim / Gazebo).

Travel

Approximately 20%-30% travel required to field test locations to support vehicle integration, autonomy tuning, performance validation, troubleshooting, and customer pilot deployments. Valid driver’s license required.

Primary location: US-Georgia-Augusta. Full-time, standard shift.