Autonomy Engineer — Planning & Orchestration

Tera AI
Tera AI

Full-time

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on Sep 30, 2026

Our work

We are a well capitalized stealth VC-backed startup building a new type of spatial AI capable of universally solving autonomy. We innovate at the foundational layer of AI by training our own AI models.

Our team

Our team is composed of AI pioneers and leaders from Google X, Google Brain, and Space Agencies. Several of us are repeat founders, with deep commercialization insights across multiple enterprise segments. We enjoy long, deep ideations around entirely unexplored AI use cases in autonomy (cars, drones, robots).

Location

San Francisco and San Diego (onsite). Active Field Testing

Technical Skills

  • Planning: You have shipped a planning or behaviour layer on real robots that operated without close supervision.
  • Architecture: Behaviour trees, state machines, task allocation, or equivalent. Explicit and inspectable rather than emergent.
  • Failure Handling: What happens on loss of comms, localisation or power mid-task, designed rather than discovered.
  • Operator Interface: Supervising several vehicles without babysitting any of them.
  • Programming: Strong C++ and Python.
  • Domain-Specific: Multi-agent coordination, contested or comms-denied operation, human-robot supervisory control.