Sr. Mission Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous vehicle subsystems and identify the layer where the issue actually originates.
• Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, visualization tooling, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Use service metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state and diagnose root causes.
• Implement tested fixes in the relevant subsystem language and ship them through CI and standard versioned rollouts.
• Distinguish software bugs from configuration and deployment mismatches and resolve issues at the appropriate layer.
• Document root causes and fixes, identify recurring subsystem failures and missing tests, and help build the team’s on-call and triage runbook.
• Escalate issues requiring changes from subsystem-owning teams rather than patching symptoms.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience debugging unfamiliar code 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.
• Practical experience with observability tooling in the Prometheus/Grafana and Loki/ELK classes.
• Linux and systems fluency; experience with declarative or immutable operating systems such as NixOS is a plus.
• Ability to communicate root causes and fixes clearly in writing.
• Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors without requiring 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.
• Embedded or fleet-software CI/CD and versioned-deployment experience is preferred.
• On-call or field-support experience for hardware deployed to users is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
• The role requires an average of 25% or more travel.
• Full-time offers may include equity grants, which are part of the total compensation package.