Sr. Mission Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous underwater and surface vehicle subsystems.
• Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, and visualization tooling.
• Use metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state and identify root causes.
• Develop, test, and ship fixes in Rust, C++, Python, Go, or the relevant subsystem language.
• Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before vehicle deployment.
• Distinguish and resolve software bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches at the correct system layer.
• Document root causes and fixes, identify recurring subsystem issues and test gaps, and help build on-call and triage runbooks.
• Coordinate with owning teams when the appropriate fix requires subsystem or roadmap changes.

Requirements

• Experience debugging code written by others under time pressure and with incomplete information.
• Working familiarity with at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
• Systems-debugging experience using logs, metrics, and offline reproduction from recorded data.
• Experience with observability tooling comparable to Prometheus/Grafana metrics and Loki/ELK logs.
• Linux and systems fluency, with declarative or immutable operating system experience such as NixOS as a bonus.
• Ability to document technical root causes and fixes clearly.
• Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors; maritime or robotics experience is not required.
• Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
• Robotics middleware, sensor driver, real-time data pipeline, simulation-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, embedded or fleet deployment, CI/CD, on-call, or field-support experience is preferred.

Benefits

• Full-time employees receive comprehensive health and other competitive benefits available at little to no cost.
• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation.
• The role requires average travel of 25% or more.