Senior Mission Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous vehicle subsystems and determine their true root causes.
• Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, and visualization tooling.
• Use metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state during failures.
• Implement and test fixes in Rust, modern C++, Python, or Go through the standard CI and versioned rollout process.
• Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before deployment to real vehicles.
• Distinguish between software bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches, and correct issues at the appropriate layer.
• Document root causes and fixes, help develop on-call and triage runbooks, and communicate required subsystem changes to owning teams.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience debugging code written by others under time pressure and with incomplete information.
• Proficiency sufficient to read and fix code in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
• Experience with systems debugging, logs, metrics, offline reproduction from recorded data, and observability tooling.
• Familiarity with Prometheus/Grafana-class metrics and Loki/ELK-class logging systems.
• Linux and systems fluency; experience with declarative or immutable operating systems such as NixOS is a bonus.
• Clear technical writing and root-cause communication skills.
• 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 drivers, real-time data pipelines, simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing, embedded or fleet software deployment, and field-support or on-call experience are preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
• Full-time employees may receive competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.
• The role requires travel of 25% or more on average.