AI Autonomy Engineering SME, UAS, Swarming, C2, Drones

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170.1k - $218.5k / year

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General Dynamics Information Technology

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1954

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

General Dynamics Information Technology is a company at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a wide range of services including consulting, digital modernization, and application services. The company is heavily involved in implementing solutions related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum technologies. GDIT is committed to supporting government and defense sectors, providing mission-critical services such as logistics and supply chain management, intelligence, and homeland security. The company also focuses on diverse and inclusive hiring practices and actively promotes employee well-being. Through its digital accelerator solutions and pioneering use of emerging technologies, GDIT aims to propel agencies' missions forward and address complex technological challenges.

📋 Description

• Design, architect, and implement autonomy capabilities for UAS, drone swarms, robotic platforms, and C2 ecosystems • Develop real-time decision-making algorithms for navigation, sensor fusion, cooperative behaviors, target recognition, and mission execution • Engineer multi-agent coordination frameworks for distributed tasking, decentralized control, and swarm intelligence • Deploy and optimize AI/ML models on embedded edge processors and resource-constrained autonomous platforms • Build and manage large-scale autonomy simulation environments • Conduct modeling, simulation, digital-twin validation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight testing • Integrate autonomous platforms with DoD C2 systems, tactical networks, and mission-planning tools • Develop APIs and data interfaces for observability, command execution, and human-machine teaming • Apply cybersecurity controls and engineer resilience against GPS denial, EW threats, adversarial conditions, and sensor degradation • Lead and mentor AI/ML, robotics, and software engineers • Collaborate with program leaders, operators, mission owners, and technical authorities • Evaluate emerging autonomy technologies and drive rapid experimentation and prototyping • Develop and maintain autonomy algorithms and pipelines from sensor ingestion through real-time decision-making • Oversee deployment, monitoring, tuning, and sustainment of autonomous platforms • Manage AI/ML model governance, versioning, and auditability • Lead vulnerability mitigation, patching, survivability improvements, and DevSecOps/autonomy safety guidance

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or similar STEM discipline • 15+ years of engineering experience, including significant work in AI/ML, robotics, UAS autonomy, or multi-agent systems • Demonstrated experience developing autonomy capabilities for unmanned or robotic platforms • Expertise in motion planning, path optimization, obstacle avoidance, mapping/SLAM, swarming, and multi-agent coordination • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and ONNX • Experience with ROS/ROS2, MAVLink, PX4/ArduPilot, or custom autonomy stacks • Experience with Gazebo, AirSim, FlightGoggles, or equivalent simulation tools • Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, VPUs, tactical compute nodes, and embedded Linux • Experience with data links, tactical protocols, mesh networks, and publish/subscribe architectures • Proficiency in Python, C++, real-time systems, containerization, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines • Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD • Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible • Knowledge of AI/ML system security and DoD cybersecurity compliance • U.S. citizenship required • Current Top Secret clearance required, with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan • 401(k) plan with company match • Full flex work weeks where possible • Paid time off, including vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave • Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year • 10 paid holidays per year • Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees • Short- and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance • AI-powered career tool identifying career steps and learning opportunities • Internal mobility support • Growth, wellness, and professional development opportunities • Remote work / telecommuting option