{"id":1289938,"url":"https://alion.io/job/uforce-seniorstaff-software-engineer-autonomy","title":"Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Autonomy)","company":{"id":1922281,"name":"UFORCE","domain":"uforce.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/uforce-com","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":132000,"max_usd":340000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":18},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Swarm Robotics","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":true},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems","optional":true},{"name":"Rust","optional":true},{"name":"Sensor Fusion","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T09:26:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T01:35:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"UFORCE exists to make aggression unaffordable.\nFounded in Ukraine and headquartered in London, UFORCE is a defence-technology company with operations across Europe, the United States and Asia.\nUFORCE builds uncrewed vessels, ground robotics and aircraft, autonomy software, and the command-and-control layer that operates them together. Each platform is deployable on its own, and stronger as part of the system. Its product lines include the MAGURA family of uncrewed surface vessels, the NEMESIS family of strike platforms, the LIUT family of ground robotic platforms, and counter-UAS systems.\nAbout the role\nThe Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Autonomy) will design, build, and operate software capabilities that improve the mission effectiveness and safety of uncrewed surface vehicles across the UFORCE C2/C4ISR stack.\nThis role spans Perception Autonomy, Autonomy Behaviours -including collision avoidance (COLAV), target-based manoeuvring and engagement-and Swarm Intelligence. You will take cross-system initiatives from design and implementation through scenario-based verification, field trials, deployment, and iteration.\nThe role requires strong software engineering and mathematical foundations, with an emphasis on autonomy that remains safe, observable, and useful in real operating conditions-including degraded sensors, different sea states, and GNSS- or RF-challenged environments.\nWhat you’ll do\nBuild production-grade capabilities across perception, autonomous behaviours, COLAV, and multi-USV coordination.\n\nDefine measurable acceptance criteria for autonomy performance, safety, reliability, and operator trust.\n\nValidate perception and behaviours across day/night operations, different sea states, sensor degradation, and GNSS/RF-challenged conditions.\n\nDevelop swarm capabilities such as task allocation, role assignment, formation control, and distributed sensing.\n\nBuild scenario libraries, replay tooling, automated metrics, and CI gates to prevent regressions.\n\nIntroduce structured logging, playback, and failure classification to accelerate field diagnosis.\n\nBuild operator controls and safeguards that enable crews to use autonomy without continuous engineering support.\n\nCollaborate with platform, C2, product, and field teams to define clear interfaces and deliver cross-system capabilities.\n\nWhat success looks like\nPerception and COLAV meet agreed performance and safety criteria in representative trials.\n\nSwarm capabilities are used routinely in multi-USV exercises and degrade safely under constraints.\n\nOperators can configure and use autonomy without day-to-day engineering intervention.\n\nAutomated scenario testing prevents safety and reliability regressions.\n\nField failures can be reproduced and diagnosed within an agreed timeframe.\n\nCapabilities have documented operating envelopes, limitations, and evidence of field readiness.\n\nRequired qualifications\n8+ years of production software or backend engineering experience.\n\nStrong experience with Java, Python, or .NET/C#.\n\nStrong mathematical foundations relevant to autonomy and robotics.\n\nExperience with distributed, real-time, event-driven, or mission-critical systems.\n\nUnderstanding of sockets, UDP, latency, packet loss, and low-level protocols.\n\nStrong testing, observability, debugging, and operational ownership.\n\nClear communication and cross-team collaboration skills.\n\nNice to have\nExperience with C++, Rust, or C.\n\nExperience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, maritime autonomy, or UxV systems.\n\nKnowledge of perception, sensor fusion, navigation, planning, or control systems.\n\nExperience with COLAV, simulation, replay tooling, or multi-agent systems.\n\nExperience in defence, C2/C4ISR, or constrained operating environments.\n\nThe nature of combat has changed.\nTomorrow’s battlefield success depends on autonomy, speed, and adaptability.\nAnd UFORCE is ready.\nAre You?","description_format":"text","description_chars":3878,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Military","Penetration Testing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T07:41:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/uforce-seniorstaff-software-engineer-autonomy","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/uforce-seniorstaff-software-engineer-autonomy.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T04:43:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4501,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":499,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}