Robotics Computer Engineer

The Guidance Navigation Control and Autonomy Branch of the Leidos Innovations Center provides cutting-edge navigation for customers who cant rely on GPS alone and we need your help in the Rocket City (Huntsville AL)! This position offers both analytic and hands-on tasks including development simulation analysis and field testing of navigation algorithms supporting autonomous robotic operations. We perform research development and advanced prototyping for DARPA NASA Air Force Research Laboratory Office of Naval Research and Army Combat Capabilities Development Command engineering centers. These customers need to get our advanced technology into the field! Youll work with other engineers in small teams using spiral or agile development to meet aggressive schedules aimed at near-term field demonstrations.

Are you excited about making advanced technologies work in the real world Then we want you on our team! For more information about the work we do please visit: note: This role is located in Huntsville AL. There may be opportunity to telework up to 1 day/week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Integrate sensors and computing platforms over various electrical interfaces (e.g. RS232 RS422 SPI I2C TCP/IP etc)
• Deploy novel algorithms for optimal estimation and/or computer vision to various processing architectures for real-time execution
• Enhance software architecture with software design programming and code reviews
• Work within a team of 3-5 engineers to test algorithms on demonstration hardware.
• Travel with the team to demonstrate systems in real-world conditions; typically lasts 1-2 weeks and occurs 3-4 times a year.
• Present techniques solutions and results to the team and to customers.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in advanced technical field (electrical engineering computer engineering aerospace engineering software engineering or equivalent) and 2 years of prior relevant experience or masters degree with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience.
• 1 years of experience working within a Linux development environment
• 1 years of experience programming in C/C
• Exposure to programming in Python or Matlab
• US Citizen and be able to obtain & maintain a Secret security clearance after hiring.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or PhD Degree in one of the majors listed above.
• Experience interfacing to sensors such as inertial sensors GPS altimeters cameras LiDAR odometers etc.
• Experience deploying navigation algorithms to real-time applications.
• Experience with Linux C and/or Python.
• Experience with version control tools especially Git and Gitlab.
• Experience with autonomous system development through robotics competitions.
• Existing US security clearance (Secret or above).

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