Mission Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous vehicle, sensor, mission, and deployment subsystems.
• Reproduce failures by replaying recorded sensor and mission data through live pipelines and visualization tools.
• Use service metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state and identify root causes.
• Implement and ship fixes in the relevant Rust, C++, Python, or Go subsystem with tests and standard CI and versioned rollout processes.
• Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before deployment to real vehicles.
• Distinguish among code bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches and resolve issues at the appropriate layer.
• Document root causes and fixes, identify missing tests and recurring subsystem failures, and help establish an on-call and triage runbook.
• Collaborate with owning teams when issues require subsystem-level changes rather than symptom patches.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience debugging code written by others under time pressure and with incomplete information.
• Working proficiency in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
• Systems-debugging experience using logs and metrics and reproducing issues offline from recorded data.
• Practical experience with observability tooling comparable to Prometheus/Grafana metrics and Loki/ELK logs.
• Linux and systems fluency.
• Clear technical writing and root-cause communication skills.
• Willingness to work closely with hardware and sensors, including without prior maritime or robotics experience.
• Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
• Robotics middleware, sensor-driver, or real-time data-pipeline experience is preferred.
• Simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop experience is preferred.
• CI/CD and versioned deployment experience for embedded or fleet software is preferred.
• On-call or field-support experience for hardware deployed to real users is preferred.

Benefits

• Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost, including support for health and recovery.
• The role requires an average of 25% or more travel.
• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers, though they are separate from the stated base salary.