Staff Autonomy Engineer (Drone)

Responsibilities

• Own the autonomy software stack for the company products including perception and inventory scanning pipelines
• Contribute to the design and architecture of product autonomy stack as it scales
• Document existing systems and plan for future revisions
• Design and implement algorithms for identifying and recording inventory locations
• Improve scan accuracy and coverage through algorithmic and sensor integration improvements
• Build and maintain systems that manage scan triggering and location mapping
• Collaborate with hardware and field teams to diagnose issues and implement improvements

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, specifically in autonomy, robotics, or perception systems
• Minimum 3 years of experience building systems that run on physical hardware in production environments
• Proficient in C++ and Python, especially for embedded or resource-constrained platforms
• Hands-on experience with computer vision pipelines, including detection and localization
• Demonstrated ability to debug software on deployed systems using logs and field data

Benefits

• Autonomy over core software stack contributing to product innovation
• Direct collaboration with cross-functional teams including hardware and ML
• Opportunity to work on real-world systems under challenging conditions
• Significant technical ownership in a rapidly growing sector
• Impact on the accuracy and reliability of customer inventory data