Engineering Manager, Autonomy Planning & Behaviors (Aerospace Autonomy)

Location: Boston or remote in the United States

Company

Publicly traded aerospace and defense company developing a full-stack autonomy platform for aircraft, from takeoff to touchdown.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for autonomous decision-making, behavior execution, and motion-planning capabilities for airborne systems.
• Define research, experiments, and development projects supporting mission autonomy.
• Lead architecture design and technology trade-off analysis for short- and long-term autonomy objectives.
• Identify capability gaps and staffing needs while aligning technical plans with the technology roadmap.
• Contribute hands-on software development when needed.
• Support simulation, system integration, and flight testing to validate real-world performance.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional experience developing software for airborne autonomous systems.
• Subject-matter expertise in mission-management frameworks, autonomy algorithms, contingency management, or machine learning for decision-making and behavior generation.
• Technical leadership experience for a team of at least four engineers at different levels.
• Proficiency in Python and C++, modern software development workflows, version control, pipelines, unit testing, and peer review.
• Experience with system-level product development, aircraft simulation, proposal writing, and technical roadmap development.

Nice to have

• Experience with ROS, DDS, or similar robotics and autonomy middleware.
• Experience with government open architectures such as A-GRA, OMS, or FACE.
• Experience with avionics, hardware and software integration, debugging, or flight testing.
• Awareness of aviation certification standards such as DO-178.
• Pilot license and flight experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with top-tier employee benefits.
• Competitive equity grants included in the total compensation package.
• Collaboration across engineering and autonomy disciplines.
• Work connected to autonomous flight testing at global flight-test facilities.