- Seattle, Washington, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Manager
- $184K–$249K per year
- 6+ years
Lead a team of Applied Scientists, Research Scientists and Software Development Engineers to develop next‑generation drone navigation and state estimation algorithms for Amazon Prime Air.
Compensation
USA, WA, Seattle - 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 8–12 Applied Scientists, Research Scientists and Software Development Engineers developing novel navigation and state estimation algorithms
- Drive day‑to‑day execution across the full development lifecycle: prototyping, modeling, simulation testing, hardware‑in‑the‑loop testing, flight test and deployment to the production fleet
- Lead the team in a scrum‑style agile process: set sprint priorities, manage dependencies and deliver against program milestones
- Build mechanisms that capture operational learnings from our delivery network, such as flight data, anomalies and performance trends, and feed them into the requirements and design of each new generation of algorithms
- Set technical direction and raise the bar on scientific rigor
Requirements
- PhD
- Master's degree
- Nice to have: communication with users and technical teams
- Nice to have: hiring and growing top talent
- Nice to have: engineering practices and patterns for full software/hardware/network development life cycle