Bedrock Ocean Exploration

Robotics

• Set the technical direction for autonomy and vehicle software across a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles
• Own the vehicle software architecture spanning onboard software, GNC and state estimation, sensing, vehicle management, and mission autonomy
• Lead difficult cross-disciplinary robotics problems end to end
• Establish standards for building, testing, and validating vehicle software
• Drive testing across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and field trials
• Diagnose vehicle software issues and ensure problems surface on a bench rather than at sea
• Improve autonomy and vehicle behaviors for long, continuous missions with minimal intervention
• Own fault management and vehicle health, including FDIR, safe-state and abort-to-surface behaviors, and graceful degradation
• Participate in the robotics on-call rotation for live, around-the-clock campaigns
• Build runbooks, telemetry, and escalation paths for sustainable on-call operations
• Standardize fleet vehicle software and build safe over-the-air deployment with versioning and rollback
• Ensure reliable onboard data capture and logging, sensor time synchronization, and onboard quality checks
• Break down and prioritize the vehicle-software roadmap and manage commitments, risk, change, and uncertainty
• Mentor robotics engineers, foster feedback and knowledge sharing, and facilitate technical decisions across disciplines
• Champion practical AI adoption in the robotics workflow
• Document strategic architecture and drive alignment with senior leadership and engineering peers

Staff Robotics Engineer