Junior Autonomous Systems Engineer

Job Description

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Job Description:

The Leidos Innovations Center (LInC) is seeking a Junior Autonomous Systems Engineer for a position in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Junior Autonomous Systems Engineer will work with other engineers in the LInC, the Office of Technology (OoT), and across Leidos to support multi-domain collaborative autonomy. This position will contribute to Leidos autonomous system capability development. He/she will work with a team of Scientists and Engineers who provide direct support in Autonomous Systems and will play a role in supporting these activities across Leidos.

Primary Responsibilities

• Research and become familiar with autonomous system architectures, software and hardware components, enabling technologies, relevant scenarios, and challenges
• Implement autonomous system software components to support various technical areas including, perception and situational understanding, planning and decision making, behavior and action execution, collaboration and manned-unmanned teaming, human-machine interaction and interfaces
• Develop and integrate novel, open source, or academic AI and/or machine learning based algorithms into autonomous systems architectures
• Develop software interfaces and perform integration testing for hardware devices such as robot motor controllers, flight controllers, and various sensors
• Utilize simulation tools for algorithm and component test and evaluation
• Optimize algorithms and components for low size, weight, and power embedded systems
• Contribute to field test planning and execution ranging from testing on indoor mobile robots to outdoor flight tests
• Collaborate with other autonomous systems team members and other teams throughout Leidos on a regular basis to stay up to date on existing capabilities that support autonomous systems

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineer, Software Engineering, Robotics, or other related field and less than 2 years prior relevant experience
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance (US Citizenship required)
• Experience developing in Linux and familiarity with command line interfaces
• Experience with robotic development tools such as ROS
• Experience with Java or C++
• Experience with Python
• Experience with hardware devices and integration

Preferred Qualifications

Note: We do not expect ANY junior applicant to have all of these qualifications, but preferably one or a subset of experience in these areas.

• Experience with autonomous systems development
• Experience utilizing and integrating open-source software packages
• Experience developing and deploying mobile robots (any domain – ground, air, sea, space)
• Experience with embedded systems such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, NVIDIA Jetson boards
• Experience with modeling and simulation tools such as Gazebo, AirSim, Matlab/Simulink
• Experience with AI, machine learning, and/or cognitive reasoning algorithms
• Experience with machine vision, perception, and/or situational understanding
• Experience with specialized GPU or FPGA based processing hardware
• Experience with GPS technology, localization, navigation, or SLAM algorithms
• Experience with robotic path planning algorithms
• Experience with context reasoning and decision-making algorithms
• Experience with distributed robot coordination
• Experience with signal processing and/or sensor fusion techniques
• Experience with frame of reference / coordinate frame transformations
• Experience with human-machine interfaces
• Experience with IP networking technologies such as TCP and UDP
• Experience with messaging infrastructures such as RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker

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