Senior Autonomy Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Autonomy Engineer on the UK Engineering team, you will lead the design, development, and verification of high-performance autonomy solutions for the defense industry. You will write perception and planning algorithms, optimize performance, and develop robust system architectures. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will translate requirements into technical solutions while mentoring junior engineers. The role also involves continuous innovation, testing, debugging, documentation, while staying at the forefront of AI technology.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Prototype, evaluate, refine, and deploy state-of-the-art ML algorithms and solutions for defense use cases
• Leverage established products at Applied Intuition to build the software and infra foundation for behavior-specific ML development.
• Tightly collaborate with perception and planning engineers on many cross-team initiatives
• Work closely with product managers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Train and mentor junior engineers as we grow the UK team, fostering a culture of learning and improvement
• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to enhance product development

We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience developing autonomous vehicle solutions for aerospace and defense
• Experience with the end-to-end development cycle of deep learning models
• Expertise in subdomains such as modeling, input pipelines, evaluation, deployment, and model optimization
• 5+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices
• Fluency in C++, or fluency in Python with intermediate experience in C++
• References who will describe them as low-ego, highly motivated, thoughtfully opinionated, strong communicators and curious listeners

Travel requirements:

• General willingness to travel for company business between our offices, as well as to customer sites

Security Requirements:

• Must have ability to hold UK Security Clearance (current or previous preferred)

Nice to have:

• Publications in computer vision, NLP, or robotics.
• Experience with drones and flight computers such as PX4.
• Experience in evaluating and improving system-in-the-loop model performance.