What you’ll do:

• As the PAE team lead, you will work at the intersection of embedded systems, robotics, and automation.
• You will work on core systems and SDKs for automation, manufacturing software, and user-facing tooling.
• You will work alongside technical leads to establish best practices/standards for software engineering and the integration of embedded systems with autonomy software.
• You will lead the team to build solutions that cover a wide-breadth, spanning across production bring up, developer tools, automated sensor calibrations, and automated integration testing. 
• We are looking for a leader, passionate about clean architecture and automated testing, who has experience in autonomy software, robotics manufacturing, or test automation. 

Projects you might work on:

• Suite of tools/applications for configuring, testing, and calibrating V-BAT aircrafts during production bring up 
• Hardware in the loop solutions for integration testing V-BAT platforms and avionics 
• Test infrastructure to enable automated integration testing of Hivemind software 
• Build an automation application to drive a portable Propulsion Test Stand 
• Applications to automate common interactions with V-BAT platforms and Hivemind software 

Required qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience. 
• Minimum of 4 years of real-world experience building automation solutions for software regression testing or production bring up / robotics manufacturing. 
• Expert C++ or Python knowledge 
• Linux knowledge 
• Software management tools (Git, AzureDevOps/Jira, Artifactory) 
• Experience with robotics or avionics integration and related ecosystem(s) 
• Expertise with a majority of the technology above
• Experience managing software teams or projects 
• Experience with architecting multi-component software applications that involve GUIs, embedded systems, databases, and various app-specific software dependencies 
• Experience with development tools for CI/CD B.S. in Computer Engineering, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience 
• You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others 
• You are capable of managing cross-functional software projects and achieving high quality execution 
• You are passionate and capable in managing team growth and performance management 
• You can make great plans to resource and roadmap projects to maximize business impact balanced with high quality engineering