Orca AI

Robotics

• Own the algorithmic path from world state to safe navigation commands, end to end
• Design and implement global and local planning: route generation, waypoint generation, path following, and continuous replanning as conditions change
• Build collision avoidance for dynamic maritime environments, including encounter detection and classification, reasoning about other vessels' course, speed, intent and uncertainty, maneuver selection and timing, and return-to-route logic
• Design mission-level decision logic: continue, deviate, hold, abort, transition to safe state and define the behavior envelope
• Build the data pipeline and own performance in simulation and at sea
• Own the algorithmic core of an autonomous vessel from world model input to maneuver commitment
• Work on autonomous and AI-driven maritime systems for defense and government operators

Senior Robotics Algorithm Engineer – Autonomous Navigation

Full-stack Engineer

• Own the autonomy runtime, including ROS2 and modern C++ architecture, module lifecycle, orchestration, state management, data flow, configuration, fault handling, and recovery
• Implement World Model ingestion and Vehicle Interface adapters to platform control systems
• Own deployment to vessel compute, including builds, packaging, versioning, configuration management, and CI
• Work with system engineering and field teams on vessel bring-up, sea trials, and field debugging
• Build logging, recording, replay, and observability capabilities to reproduce sea runs on a desk
• Integrate and operate the software-in-the-loop simulation environment
• Own stack reliability, timing, and performance on embedded hardware

Senior Robotics Software Engineer – Autonomy Runtime & Integration

Engineer

• Architect and own the end-to-end autonomous navigation stack: World Model, Planning, Decision Making, and Vehicle Interface
• Define and own the World Model Contract, including representation, uncertainty, timing and synchronization, coordinate frames, confidence, and degradation modes
• Define and own the Vehicle Interface Contract, including command semantics, platform guarantees, latency, failure behavior, and cross-platform abstraction
• Decide autonomy-brain structure, including module decomposition, behavior architecture, behavior arbitration, state ownership, and data flow
• Design the safety and fail-safe architecture, including degradation ladder, safe-state transitions, operator intervention, and fault containment
• Write and maintain the most challenging planning and decision-making code
• Set the technical direction of the autonomy group
• Lead technical hiring as the group grows
• Build an autonomous navigation product for an unmanned surface vessel operating at sea

Senior Robotics Algorithm Engineer – Autonomous Navigation

Senior Robotics Software Engineer – Autonomy Runtime & Integration

Principal Autonomy Engineer