Senior Autonomy Engineer

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.

• 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

• 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

• General willingness to travel for company business between our offices, as well as to customer sites
• Must have ability to hold UK Security Clearance (current or previous preferred)

• 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.

Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60 1.4(a), 41 CFR .5(a) and 41 CFR .5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.