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Autonomy Engineer
Vatn Systems
Bristol, USA
Full-time
Mid Level
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
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- Develop motion planning, path planning, behavior planning, and control systems for autonomous underwater vehicles
- Build autonomy capabilities spanning navigation, collision avoidance, target following, station keeping, formation behavior, and multi-vehicle coordination
- Make autonomy algorithms robust to the conditions that actually break them: degraded sensors, uncertain environments, dynamic contacts, and GNSS-denied operation
- Own technical tradeoffs across performance, safety, reliability, latency, compute constraints, and mission requirements
- Work directly with perception and sensor engineers to turn perception outputs into safe, effective autonomy decisions
- Mature autonomy from prototype capability into reliable, repeatable, fielded behavior — including time on the water supporting test and deployment
- Strong engineering foundation — CS, Software Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent hands-on experience
- 3+ years writing production C++, Python, or Rust in a Linux environment
- Experience building robust data-driven software
- Ability to get up to speed quickly in complex, established codebases
- Proven results in simulation and field tests
- Maritime sensors, underwater acoustics, or subsea systems
- Advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in a relevant technical field
- ROS 2, or comparable robotics middleware
- Estimation and sensor fusion (INS/DVL, Kalman filtering)
- Prior startup and/or defense industry experience
About Vatn Systems
Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing91 employeesFounded 2023
Private U.S. defense technology company building modular autonomous underwater vehicles for military, allied, research, and commercial missions.
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