As an Autonomy Test Engineer, you will own the verification of our autonomy software on real vessels. You’ll design and execute test scenarios that exercise autonomous behaviors (navigation, collision avoidance, mission planning, fault handling), analyze the resulting data to determine whether the autonomy did the right thing and why, and give the engineering team precise, reproducible findings. Much of the actual testing happens at sea, but the job is evaluating autonomy performance, not operating vessels.

You’ll help bridge the gap between cutting-edge R&D and mission-proven capability, ensuring our autonomous surface vehicles are performant, reliable, and safe in the most demanding environments on Earth.

At Applied, you will:

Design test scenarios and test cards that exercise specific autonomy behaviors and edge cases, with clear pass/fail criteria

Execute on-water test events, participating in sorties aboard test and chase vessels while monitoring autonomy performance against expected behavior

Analyze sortie data (logs, telemetry, sensor data) to characterize autonomy performance and isolate root causes of anomalies across perception, planning, control, and hardware

Reproduce field anomalies in simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) environments, and build regression tests so fixes stay fixed

Identify, document, and triage system discrepancies in Atlassian Jira with enough detail and reproducibility for autonomy and hardware engineers to act on

Contribute to test plans, test procedures, and test readiness reviews under the direction of the Test & Evaluation Director

Author clear, comprehensive test reports and after action reports that capture results, observations, and recommendations

Support pre-underway system checkouts and launch and recovery operations alongside the marine operations team

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Maritime Test Engineer - Autonomous Systems

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Applied

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