Principal Autonomy Software Engineer at Chaos Industries · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

The Autonomy team builds the software brains behind CHAOS Industries’ distributed defense systems, the perception, planning, and coordination layers that let fleets of sensors and effectors operate as one coherent, adaptive network. As Principal Autonomy Software Engineer, you’ll set the technical direction for how our platforms sense, reason, and act in contested, fast-changing environments. You’re the person the rest of engineering looks to when the hardest autonomy problems land on the table, equal parts architect, builder, and force multiplier.
You’ll partner across hardware, RF/signals, systems, and product to turn sensor data into decisions our operators can trust. We move fast, prototype and then systems that must work when it counts.
You’ll take principal-level ownership of upcoming autonomy programs, standing up new capabilities from prototype to fielded system and setting the standards the rest of the org builds against.
Own the autonomy software architecture end to end, multi-sensor fusion and world-modeling, mission planning, task allocation, and real-time decision-making across distributed nodes.
Define the technical strategy and roadmap for autonomy across your products, and drive alignment on hard trade-offs across teams.
Build and productionize autonomy software that runs reliably on resource-constrained edge hardware in the field, not just in the lab.
Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, simulation, and the safety and predictability of autonomous behavior.
Technically lead and mentor other engineers—raising the bar through design reviews, pairing, and hands-on collaboration rather than hierarchy.
Translate operational needs from warfighters and operators into robust, testable autonomy requirements.
Stand up simulation, test, and evaluation pipelines that validate autonomous behavior before it ever reaches the field.
Primarily an office and lab environment, with travel as needed to test sites, field demonstrations, and other CHAOS offices.
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Principal Autonomy Software Engineer

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Required

Preferred

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Company

Chaos Industries

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