{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"39afb4b7b48b82c9cb9e45c8","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/39afb4b7b48b82c9cb9e45c8","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/39afb4b7b48b82c9cb9e45c8","title":"Autonomy Software Engineer","description":"About This Position\nEdge Autonomy is seeking an experienced autonomy/AI software engineer that can lead the development of our onboard flight autonomy agent. The Autonomy Software Engineer will design and implement autonomy algorithms to run on Nvidia Jetson processors to enable autonomous flight behaviors in a variety of real-world environments. This autonomy system will make fundamental decisions about aircraft flight behavior in the absence of human involvement and must handle a variety of dynamic real-world conditions and events including weather, wind, threats, target, and degradations to aircraft state. This is not a laboratory science project. The software you develop will be deployed on fielded aircraft that actively perform operations around the world.\nResponsibilities\nLead the design and implementation of the onboard flight autonomy agent on a Jetson processor and interface the Jetson compute node to the aircrafts onboard vehicle management system.\nImplement and/or integrate autonomous path planning algorithms on a Jetson processor to enable the aircraft to autonomously respond to high-level mission needs.\nImplement and/or integrate autonomous flight performance models to enable autonomous generation of optimal flight paths in degraded aircraft states.\nImplement a decision agent to autonomous react to contingency situations including external factors (adverse weather, threats) and onboard mission-critical or flight-critical events (lost comms, lost engine, degraded flight control).\nCreate a simulation test environment to validate autonomous behavior and test your code in a System Integration Lab (SIL), Hardware Integration Lab (HIL), and Flight Test.\nDebug, troubleshoot, and isolate software issues\nQualifications\nBachelors degree in engineering or similar\nExperience writing autonomy algorithms that run on Jetson Processors\nExperience building a System Integration Lab (SIL) or Hardware Integration Lab (HIL) for Unmanned Aircraft (Preferred)\nExperience supporting flight test (Preferred)\nPractical experience writing firmware/embedded code for a physical device (Preferred)\nProficient in core languages applicable to Jetson deployment (e.g. C++)\nSolid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns\nUnderstanding of path planning algorithms (e.g. Dijkstra, A*, etc.)\nStrong sense of ownership and drive in digging into complex problems\nUnderstanding of UAS architectures and subsystems (Preferred)\nUnderstanding of flight-critical software requirements (Preferred)\nUnderstanding of Flight Behavior and Aircraft Performance (Preferred)\nEdge Autonomy Benefits\nMatching 401(k)\nPaid PTO\nPaid holidays\nMedical, vision, and dental insurance\nGroup Short-Term and Long-Term Disability\nHSA and FSA Options\nCritical Care Plan\nAccident Care Plan","company":"Edgeautonomy","rawCompany":"edgeautonomy","city":"San Luis Obispo","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-12T20:19:25.990Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"336411","title":"Aircraft Manufacturing","slug":"aircraft-manufacturing"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Autonomy Software Engineer","description":"About This Position\nEdge Autonomy is seeking an experienced autonomy/AI software engineer that can lead the development of our onboard flight autonomy agent. 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The software you develop will be deployed on fielded aircraft that actively perform operations around the world.\nResponsibilities\nLead the design and implementation of the onboard flight autonomy agent on a Jetson processor and interface the Jetson compute node to the aircrafts onboard vehicle management system.\nImplement and/or integrate autonomous path planning algorithms on a Jetson processor to enable the aircraft to autonomously respond to high-level mission needs.\nImplement and/or integrate autonomous flight performance models to enable autonomous generation of optimal flight paths in degraded aircraft states.\nImplement a decision agent to autonomous react to contingency situations including external factors (adverse weather, threats) and onboard mission-critical or flight-critical events (lost comms, lost engine, degraded flight control).\nCreate a simulation test environment to validate autonomous behavior and test your code in a System Integration Lab (SIL), Hardware Integration Lab (HIL), and Flight Test.\nDebug, troubleshoot, and isolate software issues\nQualifications\nBachelors degree in engineering or similar\nExperience writing autonomy algorithms that run on Jetson Processors\nExperience building a System Integration Lab (SIL) or Hardware Integration Lab (HIL) for Unmanned Aircraft (Preferred)\nExperience supporting flight test (Preferred)\nPractical experience writing firmware/embedded code for a physical device (Preferred)\nProficient in core languages applicable to Jetson deployment (e.g. C++)\nSolid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns\nUnderstanding of path planning algorithms (e.g. Dijkstra, A*, etc.)\nStrong sense of ownership and drive in digging into complex problems\nUnderstanding of UAS architectures and subsystems (Preferred)\nUnderstanding of flight-critical software requirements (Preferred)\nUnderstanding of Flight Behavior and Aircraft Performance (Preferred)\nEdge Autonomy Benefits\nMatching 401(k)\nPaid PTO\nPaid holidays\nMedical, vision, and dental insurance\nGroup Short-Term and Long-Term Disability\nHSA and FSA Options\nCritical Care Plan\nAccident Care Plan","datePosted":"2026-04-12T20:19:25.990Z","dateModified":"2026-04-12T20:19:25.990Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Edgeautonomy","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"San Luis Obispo","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"39afb4b7b48b82c9cb9e45c8"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/39afb4b7b48b82c9cb9e45c8"}}