Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors

Motional is developing autonomous driving technology with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and accessibility. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, the company is working toward the commercial launch of fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas, aiming to advance AI-driven transportation and improve road safety. The Systems Readiness and Performance team connects software development with real-world deployment. This group manages system design, verification, and validation for the autonomy stack, setting and measuring performance targets, and building the safety case for commercial deployment. The Autonomy Subsystems team is responsible for designing and evaluating autonomy software modules. As a Senior Engineer, Autonomy ML Systems based in Boston, you will focus on strengthening evaluation processes for machine learning subsystems. The role covers offline model evaluations, open and closed-loop re-simulations, and on-road performance assessments. The main objective is to develop meaningful metrics, validate subsystem performance, and provide actionable feedback to machine learning developers. Collaboration across teams is essential to improve in-vehicle machine learning models as Motional prepares to scale its robotaxi service. Key Responsibilities Define, prototype, and validate advanced metrics to provide new insights into model performance, especially for perception, prediction, and planning subsystems. Review the coverage of current training and testing data, and curate test sets that represent Motional’s operational design domain, including agent types, scenarios, and spatial factors. Assess machine learning model performance using established metrics and curated tests. Analyze large-scale data from on-road and simulation events to evaluate system-level performance and understand how each subsystem contributes. Set performance requirements for autonomy subsystems and confirm those requirements are met. Requirements Experience designing and evaluating safety-critical systems and machine learning models. Interest in autonomy, robotics, and machine learning.

About You: We are on the lookout for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, testing, and certification of flight-critical autonomy algorithms for cutting-edge aerospace systems. In this pivotal role, you will harness MathWorks tools to develop model-based flight software and oversee the complete lifecycle of DO-178C compliant development.

Mission Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to spearhead the development and execution of automated workflows, advanced tooling, and insightful analytics that will empower our autonomy stack to achieve unparalleled scalability. Your expertise will be crucial in transforming vast datasets into actionable engineering insights, ensuring that our software releases are resilient, thoroughly validated, and prepared for real-world deployment. Key Responsibilities: Design Intelligent Tooling: Lead the design and implementation of sophisticated automation systems aimed at categorizing and elucidating complex system behaviors using advanced data modeling techniques to expedite solution delivery. Drive Analytical Initiatives: Take charge of developing impactful performance visualization tools that convert raw metrics into clear, actionable insights related to on-road performance. Enhance Release Engineering: Leverage your experience to refine our release processes, steering the team towards a highly automated deployment framework that upholds quality while boosting efficiency. Advance Simulation Techniques: Play a pivotal role in enhancing our virtual testing environments, ensuring our simulation suites deliver the high-fidelity feedback necessary to accurately interpret releases. Collaborate Across Disciplines: Engage within a large, multi-disciplinary codebase to facilitate seamless integration between planning, motion, and control teams. Qualifications: Substantial experience in building production-grade applications, tools, and pipelines using Python. Proficient in navigating and contributing to large, complex codebases where modularity and thorough documentation are essential. Demonstrated success in delivering software in a production environment, with familiarity in CI/CD practices, version control at scale, and rigorous release cycles. Strong curiosity about data, with the capability to extract meaningful patterns from complex, high-dimensional datasets. A deep passion for a driverless future, with an understanding of the critical nature of deploying software that interacts with the physical environment. Bonus Qualifications (not mandatory): Experience with C++ in a Linux environment. Familiarity with Machine Learning frameworks or Large Language Model (LLM) integration. A background in robotics middleware (ROS, DDS) or autonomous systems.

About You: We are on the lookout for a talented Senior Software Engineer who possesses extensive experience in DO-178C flight software development and avionics integration. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing safety-critical autonomous flight software, seamlessly integrating it with avionics hardware platforms, and actively contributing to certification-ready development processes that uphold the highest safety standards.

About Merlin Labs: Merlin Labs is an innovative aerospace startup revolutionizing the aviation industry by developing cutting-edge non-human pilot technology. Supported by top-tier investors, we are committed to scaling our solutions to address significant challenges in aviation through increased autonomy and efficiency.About You: You are a dynamic and enthusiastic software engineer, deeply passionate about aviation, robotics, and autonomous systems. You excel in a variety of technical areas, ranging from perception and understanding to decision-making and human-machine collaboration. Your commitment to producing high-quality, maintainable code, coupled with your ability to work collaboratively with fellow engineers, positions you as an ideal candidate. You thrive on tackling new challenges and are eager to see your code implemented in real-world applications.

Join Shield AI as a Software Engineer II specializing in autonomy behaviors, where you will contribute to cutting-edge technology that enhances autonomous systems. You will be part of a dynamic team, working on complex algorithms and software solutions that push the boundaries of AI functionality.

Join Shield AI as a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Autonomy Behaviors. In this pivotal role, you will lead the design and implementation of innovative software solutions that empower autonomous systems. Your expertise will be vital in enhancing our cutting-edge technologies, making a significant impact on our mission to protect lives and secure our nation.

Join Our Team at Motional: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in ML Planning, you will collaborate with top-tier machine learning engineers and research scientists to revolutionize the future of self-driving vehicles. Your work will contribute to creating a positive social impact by enhancing the technology that interprets complex driving environments and devises safe, efficient driving strategies for our robotaxi fleet.Your Responsibilities:Lead the design and execution of innovative experiments, leveraging insights from cross-functional teams of machine learning engineers.Prototype and implement advanced metrics to assess the performance of our behavioral models across diverse scenarios and capabilities of our robotaxi.Ensure timely deployment of significant model updates, analyzing both offline and on-road evaluation results.Stay abreast of industry trends and propose novel architectures and network designs informed by the latest research.Maintain a robust and high-quality training and evaluation codebase, focusing on dataset generation and assessment.

At WHOOP, we are dedicated to elevating human performance through comprehensive insights into individual health and daily habits. We empower our members to achieve their peak potential.As we expand our technically advanced IT organization, we invite applications for the role of Senior Systems Engineer. This vital position will involve designing and constructing a robust framework for innovative and scalable IT operations. You will take ownership of our IT systems, processes, and infrastructure, propelling advancements in employee experience, identity and access management, automation and self-service, endpoint engineering, corporate security, compliance readiness, and much more. As one of the initial members of a dynamic and rapidly growing team, you will be expected to embrace significant responsibilities, navigate uncertainty, and shape the definition of world-class IT capabilities at WHOOP.This role will require close collaboration with company leadership, security teams, risk and compliance departments, IT support, and business systems.This is a high-impact position with an expansive scope of work, and while we don't anticipate superhuman results from a single individual, we are eager to attract candidates who thrive on challenges, are energized by technical problem-solving, and are poised to make a substantial impact.

About Merlin Labs:Merlin Labs is an innovative, venture-backed aerospace startup dedicated to revolutionizing the aviation industry through the development of autonomous flight technology. Our mission is to create a non-human pilot system that facilitates both reduced crew and uncrewed flight operations. Supported by some of the foremost investors in the field, we are rapidly scaling our operations to harness the power of autonomy and address the most pressing challenges in aviation today.Your Role:As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development and testing of civil-certified and DOD safety-critical avionics systems. We are looking for a seasoned professional with a strong background in requirements development, system design, and testing. You should have a passion for innovation and a proven ability to navigate the complexities of product development within an experimental R&D flight test environment. Your experience in ensuring safety while advancing project timelines will be essential. Additionally, you will collaborate effectively with various engineering domains, customers, suppliers, and partners.

Department: OperationsReports To: NOC ManagerLocation: Hybrid, Woburn, MAAvailable Shifts: Overnight: 10PM-6AM & First: 6AM-2PMClassification: Full-Time, ExemptEstimated Annual Salary: $105,000 – $135,000About Knox SystemsAt Knox Systems, we operate the largest managed cloud for federal agencies, constructing and maintaining secure cloud and AI environments that are essential for the U.S. government’s critical missions—from national security and public safety to vital public services. Our clients trust us to deploy production systems that adhere to the highest standards of security, reliability, and compliance.Joining Knox means contributing to high-impact, purpose-driven work. The challenges we tackle are significant, expectations are elevated, and the outcomes of our efforts are transparent. Here, speed, rigor, and trust are paramount, as the environments we protect cannot afford failure. Your work will be immediately visible, your expertise will be instrumental, and the effects of your contributions will be tangible. Operating at a federal scale, we secure some of the most sensitive government environments in the nation—ensuring that the systems we design perform flawlessly.Role OverviewAs a Level 2 Cloud Operations Engineer, you will take charge of advanced troubleshooting, system administration, and application environment support across Knox's cloud infrastructure. This role integrates operations, automation, and development support—ensuring system stability, executing changes, and maintaining compliance across FedRAMP Moderate, High, and IL4 environments. The perfect candidate will have hands-on experience in compliance-controlled cloud environments within a NOC/SOC context, possess deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure services, and demonstrate a proactive approach to real-time alerts, incidents, and escalations in production.This position operates on a shift basis within a 24/7 Network/Cloud Operations setting. Team members are expected to adhere to assigned shifts, clock in during scheduled hours, and maintain continuous operational coverage. The role involves participating in a rotating on-call schedule for after-hours incidents and holiday coverage. As a customer-facing position, it necessitates professional interactions with clients during incident responses, including handling support phone calls and attending client meetings through Zoom or other collaboration platforms.Key ResponsibilitiesExecute advanced troubleshooting for infrastructure, operating system, and application issues.Maintain system stability and compliance within regulated environments.Engage in customer interactions to provide exceptional support and service.

Role Overview Datadog is looking for a Senior Software Engineer focused on Distributed Systems to join teams in Boston, MA or New York, NY. This role centers on designing, building, and maintaining the core platforms that power Datadog’s applications. These systems handle data at massive scale, supporting real-time ingestion, storage, analysis, and querying of billions of events from customers worldwide. What You Will Do Design and implement distributed data pipelines built for durability, high availability, and low latency Operate and improve platforms that support internet-scale workloads Ensure systems are reliable and efficient for real-time analytics Workplace and Culture Datadog values a lively office culture that encourages creativity, teamwork, and strong connections among colleagues. The company offers a hybrid workplace model to support work-life balance.

Mission Summary:We are looking for a highly skilled and innovative Principal Engineer to take the helm as Tech Lead Manager for our newly established Machine Learning (ML) Acceleration team. This critical position will spearhead the strategy, development, and implementation of initiatives designed to dramatically enhance the training speed of ML models. Our ultimate aim is to significantly shorten the development cycle for new ML models and facilitate rapid hot-patching for challenges encountered in our autonomous vehicle services.As a hands-on leader, you will merge extensive technical knowledge in ML systems and performance optimization with exceptional leadership and management capabilities. You will be responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and nurturing a high-performing team of engineers, while cultivating a culture of innovation, teamwork, and ongoing enhancement.Key Responsibilities:Team Leadership & Management:Establish, direct, and oversee a top-performing team of ML and infrastructure engineers dedicated to acceleration initiatives.Provide technical direction, mentorship, and professional growth opportunities for team members.Encourage a collaborative and inclusive team atmosphere.Set team objectives, priorities, and operational roadmap in alignment with organizational goals.Technical Strategy & Execution:Articulate the technical vision and strategy for ML acceleration throughout the organization.Identify and assess state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies for expediting ML training, including data pipeline optimization, large-scale distributed training, data loader optimization, hardware acceleration, and model optimization techniques.Design, develop, and implement scalable and efficient ML acceleration solutions.Cross-functional Collaboration:Work closely with ML research, ML training platforms, and product teams to comprehend their requirements and seamlessly integrate acceleration solutions.Effectively communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences.Serve as a technical expert and advocate for ML acceleration projects across the organization.Impact & Measurement:Regularly assess and report on the effectiveness of acceleration initiatives.Continuously pursue opportunities for further optimization and innovation.

At WHOOP, we are dedicated to empowering individuals to enhance their performance and extend their healthspan. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Business Systems team, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing robust backend systems that drive WHOOP’s internal operations. Your efforts will facilitate scalability and operational efficiency across various departments, including Finance, Operations, and Member Services. By architecting and maintaining critical services and integrations, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our systems are reliable, secure, and high-performing, ultimately helping WHOOP deliver exceptional value to our members and support our global growth ambitions.

FieldAI is at the forefront of revolutionizing the interaction between robots and the real world. Based in Boston, our dynamic R&D team is dedicated to developing AI systems that are risk-aware, reliable, and ready for field deployment. Our solutions address some of the most challenging problems in robotics, unlocking the full potential of embodied intelligence. We pride ourselves on a pragmatic approach that combines cutting-edge research with practical deployment, moving beyond standard data-driven methods and transformer-only architectures. Our systems are already deployed worldwide, and we are committed to continuous improvement through rapid iterations based on real-world applications.We are looking for enthusiastic engineers to join our team and contribute to the advancement of our humanoid robot software stack. In a fast-paced environment, you will collaborate with a focused team to integrate various subsystems such as perception, planning, locomotion, and manipulation into a seamless, reliable system that operates effectively in unstructured real-world environments. A key responsibility will be to transition research-grade capabilities into robust, production-quality systems. The ideal candidate will possess a solid understanding of robotic software systems and demonstrate the practical skills necessary for delivering high-quality, maintainable code within a small, dedicated team.

About You: As a highly skilled Systems Engineer, you bring extensive experience in systems integration, requirements management, system design, and testing, particularly within civil-certified or Department of Defense (DOD) safety-critical avionics systems. Your enthusiasm for innovative product development is matched by a proven ability to effectively navigate the complexities of new product development cycles. You have hands-on experience in experimental R&D flight testing with general aviation aircraft, consistently prioritizing safety while driving rapid progress. Your expertise encompasses collaboration with diverse engineering domains, as well as interactions with customers, suppliers, and partners.

About Merlin Labs: Merlin Labs is an innovative aerospace startup, supported by prominent venture capital, focused on revolutionizing aviation through the development of non-human pilots. Our mission is to facilitate both reduced crew and uncrewed flight operations, addressing critical challenges in the aviation industry. With backing from some of the world's top investors, we are rapidly expanding our capabilities to harness autonomy today.About You: You are a seasoned engineer with expertise in autonomous systems, aviation, and robotics, eager to steer Merlin's strategic initiatives in decision-making and behavior modeling for mission autonomy. Your comprehensive understanding of both commercial and military aviation empowers you to push technological boundaries in crewed and uncrewed operations, enhancing safety and providing essential support for military applications. You have hands-on experience in developing and implementing autonomy for airborne systems, a profound grasp of mission management techniques, and the ability to build and evaluate effective teams of autonomous systems. While your primary focus will be on leading and shaping technical direction, you are also willing to engage in practical software development and experimentation as needed.

Position Title: Junior Systems EngineerReporting To: Client Technology ManagerWork Arrangement: Hybrid, Boston, MAEmployment Type: Full-Time, Hourly, Non-ExemptAt Atlas Technica, we are dedicated to providing comprehensive IT management, user support, and cybersecurity solutions tailored for hedge funds and investment firms. Established in 2016, we have consistently expanded our reach and capabilities through an unwavering commitment to exceptional service.We cherish values such as ownership, execution, growth, intelligence, and a spirit of teamwork. We seek individuals who resonate with our Core Values and are eager to contribute positively to our customer-focused environment. Atlas Technica offers competitive salaries, extensive benefits, and enticing perks for our global team members. We prioritize a professional yet congenial workplace that encourages career development and personal growth. Join us at Atlas Technica!Currently, we are on the lookout for a Junior Systems Engineer to join our rapidly expanding team. This pivotal technical role presents significant opportunities for career advancement for the right candidate. You will collaborate closely with Systems Engineers and Senior Systems Engineers in an environment that fosters swift technical development. This position is primarily based onsite, directly supporting our high-profile clients and their infrastructure as a trusted extension of the Atlas Support Team.Key Responsibilities:Deliver IT support services to users on-site.Utilize a ticketing system to effectively manage support inquiries.Maintain comprehensive documentation in accordance with organizational policies.Adhere to stringent change control procedures.Qualifications:A minimum of 1 year of IT experience, including Desktop Support, Systems Engineering, or Systems Administration.Proficient in End User Support/Desktop Support: including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and mobile device troubleshooting.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a strong sense of responsibility and follow-through.Experience with the Microsoft 365 suite (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Intune, Azure AD).Basic understanding of Microsoft Windows Server Platforms, including Active Directory and Group Policy.Familiarity with networking concepts.Willingness to travel periodically to client office locations within the metropolitan area.Ability to meet all physical demands associated with the role.

Join Anduril Industries as a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in Maritime Theater Orchestration & Collaboration. In this role, you will lead innovative projects that integrate cutting-edge technologies in defense systems, ensuring operational effectiveness and mission success.