{"id":2283597,"url":"https://alion.io/job/orca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation","title":"Senior Robotics Algorithm Engineer - Autonomous Navigation","company":{"id":176580,"name":"Orca AI","domain":"orca-ai.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/orca-ai","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Comeet","truth_index":null},"role":"Robotics","role_family":"Robotics","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Tel Aviv, Israel"],"countries":["IL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":113000,"max_usd":255000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":288},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Motion Planning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"World Models","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"Model Predictive Control","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-04T08:42:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-04","last_verified_at":"2026-10-12T01:56:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Description\nAt Orca AI Defense we build autonomous and AI-driven maritime systems for defense and government operators - perception, navigation and decision-making that run onboard, in real time, at sea, under conditions nobody controls.\nWe are hiring a Senior Robotics Algorithm Engineer to own the algorithmic core of our unmanned surface vessel: everything between a world state and a safe navigation command. Localization, route and path generation, continuous replanning, encounter reasoning, collision avoidance, COLREG-aware behavior and the decision logic that ties them together are yours. The maritime environment is unforgiving and only partly observable. Other vessels do not declare their intent, tracks are noisy, the sea moves under you, and the rules of the road are written for humans exercising judgment.\nYou will own the algorithmic core end to end. From the moment a world model arrives to the moment the vessel commits to a maneuver, every navigation decision the system makes is one you designed.\nWhat Will You Do?\nOwn the algorithmic path from world state to safe navigation commands, end to end\nDesign and implement global and local planning: route generation, waypoint generation, path following, and continuous replanning as conditions change\nBuild collision avoidance for dynamic maritime environments: encounter detection and classification, reasoning about other vessels' course, speed, intent and uncertainty, maneuver selection and timing, and return-to-route logic\nDesign mission-level decision logic: continue, deviate, hold, abort, transition to safe state and define the behavior envelope\nBuild the data pipeline and own performance in simulation and at sea\nRequirements\n5+ years in robotics algorithms: motion planning, decision making or collision avoidance for autonomous platforms\nAutomotive planning and behavior background\nStrong practical command of planning methods and their real-time trade-offs\nDemonstrated work on decision making under uncertainty with dynamic obstacles\nProduction-grade C++ and Python; able to write algorithms that run reliably in real time on embedded compute\nExperience taking an algorithm from concept through field trials and making it behave correctly in the real world\nNice-To-Haves\nMaritime domain knowledge: COLREGs, AIS and radar tracking, navigation practice\nMulti-agent interaction, intent estimation, or reactive and game-theoretic planning\nMPC, trajectory optimization, or reachability and safety-envelope methods\nExperience in defense programs \nChallenges & Opportunities\nOwn the algorithmic core of an autonomous vessel\nSolve decision making in an environment where intent is unknown\nWatch your algorithms control a real vessel at sea immediately\nShape how an entire product line navigates, from the first platform onward\nJoin a small, high-impact team working at the bleeding edge of autonomy and robotics","description_format":"text","description_chars":2887,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Israel","iso":"IL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Military","C4ISR"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T12:40:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":79,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.835,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:0","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T02:06:42Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/orca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/orca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T02:06:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2975,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":176580},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=176580"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Forca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Forca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Forca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/orca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Forca-ai-senior-robotics-algorithm-engineer-autonomous-navigation"}]}