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Backed by VCs with unicorn wins and trusted by defense customers, our team is rethinking autonomy from the chip up using modular AI, advanced visual-inertial sensing, and real-time edge compute to unlock next-gen mission capability.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for experienced energetic software engineers to join our growing team building out and delivering on-board and off-board software for state of the art unmanned aerial vehicle products.\nAs part of the Autonomy Product team you will work closely with high calibre software and hardware engineers to bridge the gap from research to production autonomy systems.\nAn ideal candidate has experience developing software in a mature collaborative software development environment (ie. with software continuous improvement, simulation and test driven development as well as evaluation pipelines) and is enthusiastic about making a big impact maturing software components into a robust, cohesive, maintainable whole system.\nAs a software generalist this role spans from going deep implementing specific individual features, creating internal or customer facing interfaces to taking the lead on whole end-to-end capabilities or enabling pipelines.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, develop, and optimize software to enable robotics tasks.\n\nDesign, develop, and optimize software to interface with internal and external stakeholder software.\n\nIntegrate new capabilities into real-world platforms, bridging research and production.\n\nWrite and supervise the development of clean, efficient, and maintainable code in C++ and Python.\n\nContribute to robust software development and test pipelines for large-scale dataset based test evaluation and resimulation.\n\nRequirements\nBachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.\n\n3+ years of software development experience in C++ environment.\n\nStrong coding skills in C++ or Python (ideally both).\n\nStrong software engineering architecture, abstraction and design skills.\n\nHands-on experience applying writing software for robotics and/or computer vision applications.\n\nExperience with Robotics middleware (such as ROS2 or protobuf), and Linux based software development.\n\nExperience with Git, code review, integration testing, CI/CD.\n\nExperience with test driven development, evaluation, integration and burndown testing.\n\nExperience implementing software interfaces to other onboard or offboard software.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience working in autonomous driving or similar robot software development environments.\n\nFamiliarity with robotic software algorithms SLAM, cameras, sensor fusion and/or motion planning.\n\nExperience with interfacing to physical devices, sensors, data exchange/network protocols, and realtime systems.\n\nFamiliarity with bash and python scripting.\n\nExperience with Drone software (such as Ardupilot, Betaflight).\n\nFamiliarity with defense software platforms such as Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK).\n\nWhy Tycho.AI\nBe part of a high calibre rapidly scaling startup defining the future of autonomous intelligence.\n\nMake a difference, help create the software development culture and ecosystem you want to develop in.\n\nCollaborative, high-trust culture that values innovation, execution, and continuous learning.\n\nCompetitive salary, meaningful equity, and generous benefits package.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement:\nTycho AI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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