Principal Engineer, Autonomy
AeroVectAutonomous Airport company
South San FranciscoLead
Liquid 2 Ventures
Bain & Company
Nava Ventures
Gold House Ventures
Graphene Ventures
Outsiders Fund
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior IC owning autonomy stacks (Perception, Prediction, Planning) for ground handling vehicles.
- •AeroVect is seeking a Principal Engineer for Autonomy, the senior-most individual contributor in their autonomy organization.
- •This role involves deep technical ownership of Perception, Prediction, or Planning, with cross-stack influence across the autonomy system.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the design and evolution of Perception, Prediction, or Planning stacks.
- •Drive robustness and set technical direction for deep learning applications.
- •Set technical direction at interfaces between autonomy modules and partner with other senior engineers.
- •Own the functional and SW architecture of the autonomy stack.
- •Requirements 15+ years of hands-on experience building production autonomy systems.
- •Demonstrated track record of shipping autonomy components on real vehicles.
- •Prior experience as the most senior individual contributor in an autonomy organization.
- •Deepest technical depth in perception, prediction, or planning.
- •Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++ and Python.
Required skills
C++PythonComputer VisionTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learn
Domain expertise
aerospaceautomotive
Tech stack
PythonC++TensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learn