Autonomy Engineer - Planning and Controls

You will contribute to the development and implementation of the core motion planning software for Skydio's autonomous drones, covering everything from low-level stabilization and control to high-level task-specific frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conceive, design, implement, simulate, evaluate, and fly new motion planning strategies
• Work across the software system to define the right data and interfaces for successful motion planning
• Develop, tune, and evaluate low level controllers
• Work with the UX team to explore and define planning/UI boundaries for new interaction paradigms

Requirements

• Experience writing software that controls real hardware, e.g. grasping / manipulation of a robotic arm, self-driving cars, any kind of mobile robot
• Configuration and free space representations
• Modern and classical control design methods
• Dynamic programming
• Non-linear optimization
• Solid software engineering foundation and a commitment to writing clean, well architected code
• High proficiency in C++