Principal AI Autonomy Systems Integrator – UAS, SWARMING, C2, EDGE AI

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💵 $149.5k - $201.3k / 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

• Integrate autonomy stacks onto UAS, multi-vehicle swarms, and robotic platforms • Implement real-time autonomy pipelines spanning sensing, fusion, planning, and control • Optimize autonomy algorithms for constrained edge environments • Build data pipelines and semantic alignment layers using trusted, structured data • Integrate ontology-driven or schema-governed data models • Enable retrieval-grounded autonomous behaviors • Deploy AI/ML models and autonomy services to edge environments using K3s/RKE2, containers, and bare metal • Harden autonomy for degraded communications, GPS denial, electronic warfare threats, sensor loss, and variable latency • Implement synchronization between edge devices and enterprise/tactical nodes • Conduct field experiments involving unmanned vehicles, swarms, multi-agent behaviors, and C2 workflows • Validate mission-thread performance across detection, tasking, coordination, and operator-in-the-loop behaviors • Integrate agent frameworks for planning, coordination, tasking, and interaction with mission tools and operators • Define safety gates, oversight mechanisms, and deterministic tool-use patterns • Support multi-agent cooperation through standard APIs and interoperable messaging • Integrate autonomous systems with tactical C2 platforms, data links, secure communications, and multi-domain workflows • Implement MOSA, SOSA, CMOSS, and open messaging protocols • Build end-to-end autonomy pipelines from sensing through action execution • Deploy computer vision, tracking, SLAM, pattern-learning, anomaly detection, and cooperative-agent models • Integrate heterogeneous sensors, radios, and payloads with autonomy decision loops • Troubleshoot autonomy software, embedded systems, edge clusters, and C2 interfaces • Translate mission problems into executable autonomy behaviors and scenario-specific workflows • Train teams and mission personnel on configuration, safety, deployment, and best practices

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS or equivalent • 10+ years of experience in unmanned systems, autonomy engineering, robotics integration, or embedded AI/ML deployment • Direct experience integrating autonomy into UAS, drones, swarms, robotic vehicles, or similar platforms • Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and real-time/embedded software patterns • Experience with motion planning, cooperative behaviors, obstacle avoidance, distributed coordination, sensor fusion, and real-time decision-making • Experience with ROS/ROS2, PX4/ArduPilot, MAVLink, and simulation tools such as Gazebo and AirSim • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and JAX • Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, VPUs, ruggedized x86 nodes, and tactical accelerators • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (K3s/RKE2), GitLab CI, and ArgoCD • Knowledge of open architectures, modular interfaces, and secure API design • Experience supporting C2 integration, tactical networks, and degraded-communication workflows • Understanding of ISR, counter-UAS, logistics autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and decision-support mission threads • Experience designing resilient behavior under environmental, adversarial, and operational stressors • U.S. Citizenship required • Top Secret/SCI required to start • Ability to travel 25–50%

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options, including plans with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan options • 401(k) plan with company match • Full flex work weeks where possible • Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, 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 team supporting career goals • Growth and professional development opportunities • Award-winning culture of innovation and military-friendly workplace