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You own the runtime - ROS2 architecture, module lifecycle, orchestration, state management, configuration, fault handling, and both ends of the stack: World Model ingestion and the Vehicle Interface down to the platform control systems.\nYou will face hard real-time constraints, embedded compute, and a system that has to keep behaving correctly when parts of it do not. You own the stack across its full depth, from the interfaces at its edges to how the whole thing behaves in the water.\nWhat Will You Do?\nOwn the autonomy runtime: ROS2 and modern C++ architecture, module lifecycle, orchestration, state management, data flow, configuration, fault handling and recovery\nImplement the system's two contracts: World Model ingestion and Vehicle Interface adapters to the platform control systems\nOwn deployment to the vessel compute: builds, packaging, versioning, configuration management and CI\nWork with system engineering and field teams on vessel bring-up, sea trials and debugging in the field\nBuild logging, recording, replay and observability - the ability to take any run at sea and reproduce it exactly on a desk\nIntegrate and operate the simulation environment (SIL) \nOwn reliability, timing and performance of the stack on embedded hardware\nRequirements\n5+ years of software engineering in robotics or autonomous systems\nDeep ROS2 and modern C++ ; 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