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Lead the validation strategy for autonomous vehicle software, mentor team members, analyze autonomous behaviors, and develop testing strategies in this senior engineering role.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Own and maintain native C++ build systems for autonomous aircraft. Improve developer velocity by reducing build/test cycle time, integrate CI with HIL and simulation, implement monitoring and alerts, troubleshoot build/test failures, and collaborate with engineers to design and deploy DevEx/DevOps solutions.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Design, implement, and deploy safety-critical navigation and state estimation systems for aerospace platforms. Develop EKF and GNSS/INS integration, multi-sensor fusion for GPS-denied environments, FDIR and integrity monitoring, and V&V test plans. Support certification, requirements allocation, performance analysis, flight test evaluation, and provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Support and maintain complex applications and infrastructure for a government customer: monitor and triage events, troubleshoot Linux/Windows servers, deploy and integrate software (AWS, CloudFormation, RDS), use Salt for configuration management, work with databases (Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL), write SOPs, manage security groups, and support after-hours deployments. Requires strong communication and collaboration with developers and vendors.

Lead the technical lifecycle of mission-focused software products: design and prototype full-stack features, validate UX and performance, bridge prototypes to production, diagnose and fix production issues, engage end users, and align engineering choices with mission constraints while collaborating across product, platform, and mission teams in a hybrid environment.

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and the platform requirements knowledge base to ensure features ship across GitLabs deployment targets. Implement integration surfaces (issues, MRs, design docs, CI/CD), collaborate with platform teams to translate expertise into structured requirements, and write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior and assessment accuracy.

Build and own a vendor schema registry and semantic validation pipeline that ingests OpenAPI/Swagger/Smithy specs, tracks schema evolution, detects semantic and breaking changes, and provides SDKs and developer tooling to safely map vendor APIs into a canonical knowledge graph used by downstream teams.

The role involves building core infrastructure for orchestrating intelligent agents, defining platform primitives, and ensuring systems scale and reliability. Collaboration with internal teams and end-to-end system ownership are essential.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

Embed with customers to design, build, and deploy GC AI integrations into legal workflows. Develop production-grade API/webhook integrations, troubleshoot deployments, create reference implementations and documentation, and feed product insights back to Engineering to improve the platform. Travel to customer sites up to 25% as needed.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and operate crucial cloud infrastructure and developer tools, focusing on observability, reliability, and performance in a high-velocity software environment.

Lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of large-scale database platforms across cloud and on-prem. Build automation-first database infrastructure (Kubernetes operators, IaC, GitOps), drive monitoring/SLOs, incident leadership, performance and cost optimization, and partner with application teams on safe schema/migration practices. Mentor engineers and evaluate AI-assisted workflows to improve productivity and reliability.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

Drive adoption of AI-native engineering workflows, create technical content, engage with developers, and improve AI-assisted software development practices.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll design and develop GenAI platforms, integrate LLMs, mentor engineers, and solve technical challenges for scalable solutions.

As a Senior FPGA Verification Engineer, you will architect and develop test benches, verify code functionality, and prepare design review materials.