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We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.\nAbout the Role\nWe are hiring Sr. and Staff Software Engineers (Autonomy) to build the onboard and platform software that carries our mining vehicles from raw sensor data to safe, reliable motion.\nIn this role you will own the software the rest of the autonomy stack runs on: sensor drivers and data pipelines on the vehicle computer, time synchronization and calibration, deployment and monitoring, the handoff of data from the vehicle to the cloud, simulation and test infrastructure, and the drive-by-wire interface and low-level control logic. You will carry work from design through implementation, simulation, and bench and field validation on real equipment at our mine sites, working hand in hand with our machine learning, hardware, controls, and mine operations teams. 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