Autonomy Test & Integration Engineer
REGENT, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
The role
We're looking for an Autonomy Test & Integration Engineer to take our perception system from the bench to the open ocean and build the test infrastructure that connects the two. The system detects and tracks vessel traffic for a wing-in-ground-effect craft that takes off and lands on the water. Testing perception on this class of vehicle is a problem very few people have worked on.
Half the job happens on the water. You'll go out with our test and operations team, who run the vessels and the campaigns, and handle the perception side: mounting and cabling cameras and radar on boats, calibrating dockside, and collecting data against live vessel traffic. No two sea days give you the same weather, light, and traffic. The job is planning each one tightly, adapting when hardware or the sea won't cooperate, and coming back with data worth keeping.
The other half is onshore, building what the field work depends on: replay and hardware-in-the-loop setups that let us rerun a sea day on the bench, calibration tooling that keeps sensor data usable, and the integration path that carries new perception software onto our vehicles. Whether a day's results can be trusted comes down to calibration and process, and both are yours. The team iterates as fast as this infrastructure lets it.