Robotics Software Engineer

About Splash Inc.

Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security

The role

# Robotics Software Engineer (Autonomy)We're looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to help advance our autonomous maritime systems. Our autonomy stack is already deployed and operating in real-world environments—you'll help extend its capabilities, improve performance in increasingly challenging conditions, and scale collaborative autonomy from small coordinated teams to large, multi-domain autonomous operations.## What It's Like to Work HereWe're a fast-paced engineering team that believes the best products are built by testing early, iterating often, and shipping quickly. Engineers have a high degree of ownership and work across the entire product lifecycle—from idea to deployment.Field testing is a core part of how we build. We prefer to be on the water daily, validating new features, observing operators, and seeing our systems perform in real-world conditions. That direct connection between engineering and field operations helps us make better design decisions, move faster, and build products that solve real problems.## What You'll Work On- Improve and extend our existing autonomy stack for unmanned maritime systems.- Advance autonomous navigation in increasingly dynamic and congested waterways.- Improve path planning, decision making, and obstacle avoidance in complex real-world environments.- Help scale collaborative autonomy from today's small coordinated teams to large, heterogeneous fleets operating across maritime and multi-domain platforms.- Develop autonomy that enables operators to confidently manage increasingly capable autonomous teams.- Integrate heterogeneous sensor data to improve localization, perception, and autonomous decision-making.- Optimize autonomy software for reliable, low-latency execution on edge compute platforms.- Build robust deployment infrastructure for vehicles operating continuously in the field.- Collaborate closely with perception, controls, frontend, and hardware engineers to rapidly prototype, test, and deploy new capabilities.## Requirements- Strong experience with robotics, autonomous systems, or motion planning.- Experience implementing mathematical path planning algorithms (A*, Graph Search, RRT, Potential Fields, MPC, or similar).- Strong software development skills in C++, Python, or similar languages.- Experience developing on Linux-based embedded systems (Yocto experience is a plus).- Experience integrating multiple sensors such as cameras, radar, LiDAR, GPS, and IMUs.- Understanding of localization, perception, navigation, and autonomous decision-making.- Experience deploying and optimizing software on edge compute platforms.- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices.## Nice to Have- Experience with ROS2, NVIDIA Jetson, NVIDIA Holoscan, CUDA, or GPU-accelerated computing.- Experience developing autonomy for USVs, UGVs, UAVs, or other robotic platforms.- Experience with collaborative autonomy, multi-agent systems, or swarm robotics.- Experience operating autonomous systems in real-world environments.- Experience with distributed software deployment and embedded testing frameworks.

Skills

• C++
• Python