Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

Company: Confidential - Late-stage maritime autonomy company
Location: Alameda, CA (hybrid, 3 days per week in office)
Compensation: $210,000 - $300,000 + equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Confirm with recruiter (defense work)

About the Company

A late-stage company that designs, builds and operates a fleet of autonomous ocean vehicles for maritime security, ocean mapping and data collection.

The Role

Our client is hiring a Software Engineer (5+ years) in autonomous systems or robotics with strong C++ and hands-on experience shipping autonomy software on real vehicles, across perception, localization, planning, decision-making and vehicle behavior.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement and deploy production autonomy software in C++ onboard autonomous maritime vehicles.
• Develop algorithms for perception, localization, planning, navigation and collision/terrain avoidance.
• Contribute to sensor fusion across radar, camera and other modalities.
• Build local and global planners that use map and sensor data.
• Make practical trade-offs on constrained onboard compute (Nvidia Jetson).
• Validate behavior with simulation, telemetry and real-world data, building your own Python tooling.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in autonomous systems or robotics software
• Strong C++
• Shipped production autonomy algorithms on physical hardware
• Comfort across the full autonomy stack

Nice to Have

• Autonomous driving, aerospace, defense or maritime experience
• ROS, sensor fusion and GPU computing

Tech Stack

C++, Python, Nvidia Jetson, ROS, sensor fusion, simulation, Linux, computer vision, motion planning