Autonomy Engineer — Planning & Orchestration
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.