Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208)

Lead Technical Delivery – Lead the technical execution of complex autonomy capabilities from architecture through field deployment, coordinating work across multiple engineering teams. 

Develop & Field Autonomy – Drive integration of mission autonomy, payloads, flight-control interfaces, executive autonomy, and multi-agent behaviors onto V-BAT and X-BAT. 

Aircraft Team Partnership – Serve as a primary technical partner to the Aircraft team, defining integration approaches, resolving interface issues, and ensuring mission readiness. 

Cross-Team Technical Leadership – Partner across Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, GCS, Strategic Systems (ACP), and feature crews to solve complex systems integration challenges. 

Systems Architecture & Integration – Influence architecture, interface design, and integration strategy across multiple subsystems. 

Design & Engineering Excellence – Lead design reviews, contribute to ICDs, mentor engineers, and improve engineering rigor. 

Mission Readiness & Field Support – Drive release readiness while supporting flight tests, customer demonstrations, and operational deployments. 

Continuous Improvement – Improve integration workflows, testing infrastructure, and engineering productivity. 

C2 Interoperability & Standards – Drive implementation of GCS and C2 interfaces using common open-systems standards. 

Travel Requirement – Members of this team typically travel around 10–20% of the year to different office locations, customer sites, operator training events, flight tests, and integration exercises.