Senior Autonomy Engineer 26660 (Software Engineer 4)

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.

Job Location:

Virginia Beach, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 117262 - 167518

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Requisition Number:26660

Required Travel: 26 - 50%

Employment Type:Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range:$117262.00-$167518.00

Security Clearance:Ability to Obtain

Level of Experience:Senior

This opportunity resides with Uncrewed Systems (UxS) a business group within HIIs Mission Technologies division. Uncrewed Systems comprises unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and autonomy software.

HII creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense marine research and commercial applications. Serving customers in more than 30 countries HII provides design autonomy manufacturing testing operations and sustainment of unmanned systems including unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vessels (USVs).

Meet HIIs Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR AI and Big Data cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role thats right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

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HII Unmanned Systems (UxS) are seeking a senior autonomy engineer to join our growing team in support of the next generation of maritime robotics to advance Autonomous and AI command and control (C2) framework within our ODYSSEY autonomy suite that is hosted on our REMUS and ROMULUS autonomous vehicles. You will be working with a world-class interdisciplinary team to deploy advanced autonomous maritime solutions for defense marine research and commercial applications. With HII serving unmanned system customers in more than 30 countries the autonomy team is at the core of the solution space for unmanned platform design autonomy and AI deployment user interface platform manufacturing and testing and operations and sustainment of unmanned systems and their auxiliary equipment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Designing implementing and validating multi-vehicle multi-domain C2 behaviors including collaborative contact management sensor control and fire control
Developing and integrating sensor-driven perception capabilities to enable autonomous situational awareness contact tracking and environmental understanding
Designing implementing and validating intelligent communication networks given operational environment challenges and mission priorities
Works with the ODYSSEY product owner and management to help define and assign tasking
Responsible for estimating and managing tasks
Ensure that design choices and verification methodologies support product requirements and product development processes are followed within program timelines
Participates in and/or leads Peer Reviews Design Reviews and customer meetings as needed
Works well in a multi-disciplinary team environment
Demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative and assist in developing unique differentiated solutions to complex problems in a continuous improvement environment
Contribute to the autonomy roadmap by researching and prototyping new algorithms identifying tactical capability gaps and proposing novel solutions.
Analyze mission logs and performance data to diagnose failures optimize behavior models and inform iterative development.
Work at the intersection of classical autonomy and machine learning blending rule-based systems with learning-based methods such as reinforcement learning to achieve robust adaptive behavior

Requisition Number:26660Required Travel: 26 - 50%Employment Type:Full Time/Salaried/ExemptAnticipated Salary Range:$117262.00-$167518.00Security Clearance:Ability to ObtainLevel of Experience:SeniorThis opportunity resides with Uncrewed Systems (UxS) a business group within HIIs Mission Technologies...