At Aurora Flight Sciences, we design, build, and fly advanced aircraft and enabling technologies from concept to reality. We are searching for a talented and self-motivated Humans and Autonomy Research Engineer to help us create the future of flight. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
- Conduct research and development in autonomous systems that extend human capability.
- Contribute to research proposals for government/DOD programs.
- Lead the specification, design, development, and integration of human-autonomy interaction on Aurora programs.
- Apply expertise in knowledge elicitation, systems engineering, human subjects testing, training programs, and procedures in support of developing new autonomous systems and methodologies.
- Develop designs, inform software requirements and support software architecture for innovative user interfaces for human interaction with robotics and autonomous systems.
- Present/organize for customer reports, conferences, workshops, invited sessions, and journal papers.
- M.S. or PhD in Aero/Astro, Computer Science, or Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Humans and Autonomy; or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in some and working knowledge of most of the following: human-robot teaming, human-robot interaction, human factors, user-interface design, trust in autonomy, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
- Ability to design and implement software in at least one of the following languages: Python, C++, C#, Java, iOS, or Android.
- Ability to design and implement hardware/software prototypes.
- Must be a US Person (US Citizen or US Permanent Resident/Green Card Holder).
- Experience applying design and cognitive engineering principles to relevant aerospace problems.
- Experience with standard systems engineering practices (requirements definition, risk identification and management, fault tree generation, FMECA, etc.).
- Expertise in Commercial or Military UAV operations.
- Active DOD clearance.
- Occasionally required to travel for reviews, customer meetings, etc.
- Occasionally required to work non-business hours to support experiments and travel to customer sites.