Senior Mission Software Engineer
Accelint · Panama City Beach, FL · Yesterday
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time
Duties & Responsibilities
- Deliver integrated concept demonstrations for USV workflows such as mission planning, integrating sensors, route execution monitoring, geofencing, vehicle status/health, and operator oversight.
- Connect UI experiences to simulation/backends so demos reflect realistic vessel behaviors (telemetry cadence, state transitions, fault conditions, and mission events).
- Develop Python utilities and lightweight services to support concepts (adapters, data shaping, simulation hooks, replay tools, CLI utilities).
- Implement or integrate real-time interfaces (REST/WebSockets/streaming, pub/sub) to support high-rate telemetry and event-driven updates.
- Orchestrate and troubleshoot distributed messaging architectures common in autonomy stacks (e.g., Redis, DDS, pub/sub, streaming pipelines).
- Diagnose cross-service issues: networking, service discovery, QoS/config mismatches, environment variables, build/run drift, and runtime logs.
- Add pragmatic test coverage (unit tests for core logic; smoke/e2e tests for mission flows) to keep concepts demo-ready.
- Produce clear runbooks for “push-button” demos: environment setup, data sources, simulation configuration, and troubleshooting.
Required Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent professional experience).
- 5+ years working experience with Python for services, tooling, or automation scripts.
- Familiarity with autonomy/robotics concepts (mission states, control modes, fail-safes, safety constraints).
- Exposure to maritime/USV data sources (GPS/IMU, AIS, radar integration concepts, NMEA/NMEA2000).
- Experience supporting simulation-driven integration and replay (recorded logs, deterministic playback, scenario config).
- Experience with telemetry and messaging systems (Redis pub/sub, DDS, MQTT, Kafka, etc.).
- Experience integrating systems using APIs and real-time patterns (REST, WebSockets, streaming, pub/sub).
- Currently holds an active U.S. national security clearance or be able to receive and maintain one.