Principal AI Autonomy Systems Integrator – UAS, SWARMING, C2, EDGE AI

Job Description:

• Integrate autonomy stacks onto UAS, multi-vehicle swarms, and robotic platforms
• Implement real-time autonomy pipelines spanning sensing, fusion, planning, and control
• Optimize autonomy algorithms for constrained edge environments
• Build data pipelines and semantic alignment layers using trusted, structured data
• Integrate ontology-driven or schema-governed data models
• Enable retrieval-grounded autonomous behaviors
• Deploy AI/ML models and autonomy services to edge environments using K3s/RKE2, containers, and bare metal
• Harden autonomy for degraded communications, GPS denial, electronic warfare threats, sensor loss, and variable latency
• Implement synchronization between edge devices and enterprise/tactical nodes
• Conduct field experiments involving unmanned vehicles, swarms, multi-agent behaviors, and C2 workflows
• Validate mission-thread performance across detection, tasking, coordination, and operator-in-the-loop behaviors
• Integrate agent frameworks for planning, coordination, tasking, and interaction with mission tools and operators
• Define safety gates, oversight mechanisms, and deterministic tool-use patterns
• Support multi-agent cooperation through standard APIs and interoperable messaging
• Integrate autonomous systems with tactical C2 platforms, data links, secure communications, and multi-domain workflows
• Implement MOSA, SOSA, CMOSS, and open messaging protocols
• Build end-to-end autonomy pipelines from sensing through action execution
• Deploy computer vision, tracking, SLAM, pattern-learning, anomaly detection, and cooperative-agent models
• Integrate heterogeneous sensors, radios, and payloads with autonomy decision loops
• Troubleshoot autonomy software, embedded systems, edge clusters, and C2 interfaces
• Translate mission problems into executable autonomy behaviors and scenario-specific workflows
• Train teams and mission personnel on configuration, safety, deployment, and best practices

Requirements:

• BA/BS or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience in unmanned systems, autonomy engineering, robotics integration, or embedded AI/ML deployment
• Direct experience integrating autonomy into UAS, drones, swarms, robotic vehicles, or similar platforms
• Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and real-time/embedded software patterns
• Experience with motion planning, cooperative behaviors, obstacle avoidance, distributed coordination, sensor fusion, and real-time decision-making
• Experience with ROS/ROS2, PX4/ArduPilot, MAVLink, and simulation tools such as Gazebo and AirSim
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and JAX
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, VPUs, ruggedized x86 nodes, and tactical accelerators
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (K3s/RKE2), GitLab CI, and ArgoCD
• Knowledge of open architectures, modular interfaces, and secure API design
• Experience supporting C2 integration, tactical networks, and degraded-communication workflows
• Understanding of ISR, counter-UAS, logistics autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and decision-support mission threads
• Experience designing resilient behavior under environmental, adversarial, and operational stressors
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Top Secret/SCI required to start
• Ability to travel 25–50%

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan options
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
• Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance
• AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities
• Internal mobility team supporting career goals
• Growth and professional development opportunities
• Award-winning culture of innovation and military-friendly workplace