Senior Autonomous Software Engineer (Robotics)

Somerset Staffing • West Lafayette, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Teledyne FLIR is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead the advancement of a rapidly maturing software stack on an autonomous robotic platform. You will serve as a key technical contributor within an interdisciplinary team, focusing on the real-time integration of advanced sensors (cameras, LiDAR) to drive autonomous decision-making. You will also architect and maintain robust automated testing and evaluation CI/CD pipelines to guarantee flawless software performance prior to edge-compute field deployments.

Requirements

• 8+ years of advanced software engineering experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or a highly related field (or Master's Degree with 6+ years of specialized experience).
• Expert-level proficiency in modern C++ (including designing and debugging complex multithreaded applications) and Python.
• Deep, proven experience implementing and deploying SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) algorithms using cameras and/or LiDAR.
• Strong foundational knowledge in applied mathematics and statistics, specifically related to 3D spatial mapping and kinematic modeling.
• Hands-on expertise with modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines) and containerization technologies (Docker) for edge deployment.
• Advanced proficiency with Git and collaborative, agile development workflows.

Nice To Haves

• Experience training, optimizing, and deploying computer vision neural networks.
• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks, specifically PyTorch.
• Background working with Defense or Detection Engineering technologies.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and deploy highly efficient, real-time algorithms to ingest, fuse, and process data from diverse sensor arrays for autonomous robotic navigation.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and scaling of robust CI/CD pipelines to automate dependency provisioning, rigorous software testing, and seamless deployment to edge devices.
• Design, utilize, and extend scalable APIs to guarantee accurate and high-speed data propagation across complex, multi-threaded system architectures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior