Sr. Engineering Manager - Autonomy and Executive Reasoning

Sr. Engineering Manager – Autonomy and Executive Reasoning

M.S in Computer science, Aerospace or related engineering field
9+ years of experience in engineering autonomous systems or equivalent engineering roles
3+ years of people leadership experience leading teams of 4+ people
Experience with path or behavior planning, motion planning or task planning
Demonstrated ability to take ideas from academic works, and polish them to enable production ready capabilities
Proficient in software delivery and managing execution toward tight timelines
Proficient with C++ 11 or newer in a production environment
Experience in a collaborative development environment, focused on continuous integration/delivery & test-driven development
Strong knowledge of modern software engineering best practices
Demonstrated record of working hard, strong communication skills, being a trustworthy teammate, and being kind to others
Strong organizational skills

Lead the technical direction and roadmap for a range of Cognition capabilities including but not limited to robot team management, multi-agent task assignment, task scheduling & coordination, intelligent failure handling, intelligent attrition management, and system explainability
Enable intuitive and easy workflows for SDK customers to develop customizations and extensions to successfully achieve their autonomy objectives and aspirations
Serve as the architect for the Executive Reasoning stack to enable modularity, correctness and extensibility
Grow & mentor the autonomy and software engineers in the team via performance feedback, technical guidance and code reviews
Ensure high morale and excitement in the team by connecting day-to-day efforts to the big picture, ensuring alignment of personal goals with company objectives, and actively taking steps to set them up for success
Grow the team by identifying gaps and projecting headcount needs
Lead planning and execution for the team to ensure informed team commitments and timely delivery of those commitments
Work in close collaboration with other Pilot teams (State-estimation, Object tracking, Path & Motion Planning, Mapping) to ensure correctness and cohesiveness of the overall Pilot product
Work in collaboration with Program and Product managers to define a feasible technical roadmap for future autonomy solutions