Jobs at HavocAI

Plans, executes, and analyzes testing for autonomous surface vessels and integrated autonomy systems. Responsibilities include validating mechanical, electrical, embedded software, sensors, communications, navigation, propulsion, and perception systems; troubleshooting failures; performing root-cause analysis; analyzing telemetry and mission data; preparing test reports; and supporting dockside testing, sea trials, deployments, and maritime field operations.

Plans and executes customer demonstrations and field validation events for autonomous surface vessels. Operates, maintains, troubleshoots, and validates vessel hardware, autonomy software, networking, payloads, and test infrastructure in maritime environments. Collects and analyzes test data, coordinates with engineering and mission teams, supports customer engagements, and prepares systems for deployments. Requires travel up to 50% and comfort operating on or near open water.

Lead the maturation of an unmanned aircraft system from prototype to fieldable production platform. Design and fabricate airframes, mechanisms, mounts, enclosures, and payload interfaces; integrate propulsion, avionics, sensors, communications, and payloads; create CAD designs and drawings; build test fixtures; conduct bench, ground, environmental, and flight testing; diagnose failures; and rapidly redesign hardware based on test results.

Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical functions, partnering with hiring managers and executives to define needs, source candidates, manage interviews, close hires, and build recruiting processes. Maintain pipelines and candidate data in Ashby, use recruiting metrics and market intelligence, improve candidate experience, and adapt quickly to changing priorities in a high-growth defense technology environment.

Lead the structural design, analysis, testing, configuration management, and production readiness of a military unmanned aircraft system. Transition the prototype to a fieldable LRIP platform through design-for-manufacturability, subsystem integration, supplier coordination, airworthiness documentation, production testing, and flight-test support. Manage engineering schedules, technical reviews, risks, cost estimates, and a small engineering and technician team while coordinating with manufacturing partners and government customers.

As an Embedded Perception Engineer, you'll develop perception pipelines for autonomous systems, focusing on vision model development, sensor fusion, and optimization on embedded hardware.

As a Robotics Engineer, you will design and deploy autonomy systems for unmanned ground vehicles, implementing control algorithms, integrating perception pipelines, and ensuring system reliability through field testing and debugging.

Lead planning, deployment, and operation of HavocAI ASV platforms and HavocCloud products. Coordinate cross-functional teams, train users, monitor system performance, resolve issues, and translate operational feedback into product improvements. Serve as primary customer contact during field deployments and support mission success for defense customers.

The Controller manages the accounting function, ensuring compliance, financial reporting, and internal controls while leading a high-performing team. This role requires strategic oversight and expert knowledge in U.S. GAAP and financial systems.

As a Mission Software Engineer, you'll develop and deploy mission-critical software for autonomous systems, engaging with interdisciplinary teams to solve real-world challenges.

Develop, deploy, and own mission-critical autonomy software for maritime systems. Work across networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics to build, monitor, and troubleshoot deployed solutions, collaborate with customers and multidisciplinary teams, and scale platform capabilities for operational use.

Lead the on-vehicle autonomy team to design, build, integrate, and field autonomy software for autonomous surface vessels. Own navigation, planning, control, behaviors, safety logic, and autonomy execution; drive architecture, testing, simulation, HIL, field deployments, and cross-functional integration while mentoring engineers and ensuring mission-ready, maintainable autonomy systems.

Lead technical direction and execution of autonomy systems for maritime autonomous vehicles. Own architecture and integration across perception, planning, controls, multi-agent coordination, simulation, testing, and field deployment. Mentor senior engineers, drive engineering practices, translate customer needs into requirements, and ensure autonomy capabilities mature from prototype to robust, fielded mission systems.

Lead development and maintenance of low-level embedded control software for uncrewed surface vessels. Design and optimize drivers for CAN and RS485, integrate subsystems, set up HIL test environments, collaborate with hardware and autonomy teams, and produce documentation and test artifacts.

Deploy and operate small UAS alongside military units, plan and brief drone operations, support hardware/software testing and demonstrations, provide operator feedback to engineering, refine tactics and procedures, and collaborate across Mission Operations to ensure mission success.

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go. Architect distributed, fault-tolerant systems, optimize performance and reliability, define APIs and service boundaries, improve observability and operational readiness, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical autonomous deployments.

Lead technical execution for robotics, autonomy, software, hardware, and defense programs. Own schedules, risks, dependencies, integration and test planning, field testing, stakeholder communication, and delivery of mission-ready systems while coordinating cross-functional engineering and customer teams.