HavocAI

Technical Project Manager

• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and dependencies.
• Lead execution across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment with technical and program objectives.
• Track progress against scope, schedule, and risk, driving accountability across teams.
• Serve as the primary liaison across engineering, product, manufacturing, and external partners.
• Facilitate regular project reviews, standups, and executive updates.
• Ensure tight integration between hardware, software, and manufacturing workflows.
• Identify technical, operational, and schedule risks early and drive mitigation strategies.
• Proactively troubleshoot issues and coordinate rapid resolution with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain program stability in dynamic, high-uncertainty environments.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand system architectures, dependencies, and constraints.
• Ensure project plans reflect real technical realities and priorities.
• Support technical decision-making by balancing tradeoffs across scope, schedule, and risk.
• Establish and continuously improve project management processes and best practices.
• Leverage metrics and reporting to drive execution discipline and continuous improvement.
• Support agile and hybrid execution models across teams.
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise updates for executive leadership and external stakeholders.
• Maintain transparency on progress, risks, and changes.
• Own program documentation, dashboards, and reporting cadence.
• Coordinate with external vendors and manufacturing partners to ensure delivery against requirements and quality standards.
• Manage contractual deliverables and timelines in collaboration with internal teams.

Solutions Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain integrations between C2 systems, communication platforms, and related infrastructure.
• Build and extend open-source SDKs, ensuring they are reliable, well-documented, and easy to use.
• Actively engage with and support the open-source developer community, fostering adoption and contribution.
• Model and design high-level abstractions that enable interoperability across diverse systems.
• Collaborate with product, platform, and autonomy teams to deliver integration solutions aligned with mission needs.
• Contribute to internal standards and best practices for integration architecture and community-facing SDK development.

Software Integration Engineer

Electrical Engineer

• Design and integrate electrical subsystems including power distribution, power conversion, energy storage, RF/comms, flight computers, sensors, and signal distribution
• Develop system-level electrical architectures (power trees, grounding strategies, data buses, redundancy and failover systems)
• Evaluate electrical loads, weight/power tradeoffs, and environmental constraints for airborne platforms
• Conduct testing to validate RF performance, signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and communication link reliability
• Produce schematics, harness drawings, connector selections, and interface definitions
• Oversee harness fabrication with attention to weight optimization, vibration resistance, and flight reliability
• Lead subsystem bring-up, integration, and validation testing
• Diagnose issues across power systems, EMI/EMC, comms links, avionics, and embedded electronics
• Partner with mechanical engineers on packaging, thermal management, and structural integration
• Collaborate with software and systems teams to ensure robust interfaces across avionics and mission systems

Senior Electrical Engineer

Product Designer

• Serve as the technical lead for the UX team, defining frontend architecture, engineering standards, and best practices.
• Lead planning and execution of UX initiatives in alignment with product and engineering goals.
• Mentor UX and QA engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
• Coordinate effectively with international teams to ensure consistent standards and predictable delivery.
• Design and implement high-performance user interfaces supporting complex workflows and operational decision making.
• Architect scalable frontend systems using React and modern UI frameworks.
• Define frontend data architecture, including state management and integration with backend and real-time systems.
• Build and maintain reusable component libraries and design systems.
• Develop rich, interactive data visualizations and map-based interfaces for large-scale datasets.
• Optimize rendering performance for data-intensive applications.
• Translate complex domain data into clear, intuitive user interactions for expert users.
• Partner with QA engineers to define testing strategies and maintain high UI reliability.
• Ensure accessibility, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Drive frontend performance monitoring and optimization.
• Establish and maintain strong UX quality standards.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams.
• Bridge UX design intent with engineering implementation while maintaining performance and scalability.

UX Lead

DevOps Engineer

• Design and evolve reliability architecture for distributed and cloud-hosted systems.
• Define and implement SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
• Partner with platform and application teams to design systems for reliability, scalability, and operability.
• Identify and mitigate systemic reliability risks across infrastructure and services.
• Lead incident response processes including on-call rotations, escalation, and post-incident reviews.
• Conduct root cause analysis for complex production incidents and drive long-term improvements.
• Improve operational readiness through runbooks, automation, and resilience testing.
• Reduce operational toil through tooling, automation, and process improvements.
• Design and maintain observability systems for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Ensure services and data pipelines are observable, debuggable, and performant in production.
• Drive performance analysis and tuning across infrastructure and service layers.
• Build automation to improve system reliability, deployment safety, and recovery processes.
• Partner with DevOps and Cloud Platform teams on CI/CD reliability, rollout strategies, and safe deployment patterns.
• Support and improve Kubernetes-based environments and containerized workloads.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure secure and resilient system design.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Maintain strong operational practices around access control, secrets management, and change management.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Director

• Architect next-generation autonomy-native fixed-wing and/or VTOL aerial platforms
• Define airframe configurations optimized for autonomy missions and scalable production
• Lead aerodynamic trade studies and configuration selection
• Oversee propulsion system integration and performance optimization
• Define and maintain weight budgets, center-of-gravity discipline, and structural margins
• Lead rapid prototype build cycles with approximately 6-month iteration loops
• Oversee development from concept through first flight and flight testing
• Define and approve flight envelope expansion and validation plans
• Ensure safe and effective progression through flight testing milestones
• Work closely with autonomy, compute, and software teams to ensure tight HavocOS integration
• Align platform capabilities with autonomy system requirements
• Design aerial platforms capable of scaling to production volumes of 1,000+ units
• Balance performance, manufacturability, and operational reliability

Director of Advanced Development – Aerial Systems

Engineer

• Translate conceptual aircraft designs into functional prototype airframes
• Design and fabricate composite structures for UAV platforms
• Develop and manufacture carbon fiber and composite airframe components
• Design modular wing systems, fuselage structures, and structural assemblies
• Design and build molds, fixtures, and tooling for rapid hardware iteration
• Develop manufacturing processes that support repeatable builds
• Optimize structures for weight, strength, and durability
• Support structural analysis and validation testing
• Support airframe integration, flight readiness reviews, and structural validation
• Work closely with flight test teams during prototype deployment
• Design structures that can transition from prototype to scalable manufacturing

Rapid Prototyping Mechanical/Structures Engineer

• Integrate GPU-based edge compute platforms for onboard autonomy processing
• Optimize compute performance, latency, and power efficiency for airborne environments
• Support deployment of HavocOS autonomy stack on embedded systems
• Architect onboard power distribution and battery systems
• Design electrical architectures that support high-performance compute and sensor loads
• Optimize power management for endurance and reliability
• Develop thermal management strategies for high-performance embedded compute
• Ensure stable operation under variable environmental conditions
• Build robust sensor bus architectures supporting cameras, lidar, radar, and navigation sensors
• Integrate communication protocols and data pipelines for autonomy systems
• Ensure flight-ready electrical integration across compute, sensors, and propulsion subsystems
• Design systems with strong EMI resilience and reliability
• Work closely with autonomy, avionics, and airframe teams
• Support system integration, validation testing, and flight readiness

Embedded Compute, Power Engineer

• Integrate HavocOS autonomy stack with aerial flight controllers and onboard compute systems
• Ensure reliable communication between autonomy software, sensors, and vehicle control systems
• Develop cooperative behaviors between aerial and maritime autonomous platforms
• Enable coordinated mission execution across multiple vehicle types
• Design and run multi-vehicle swarm experiments
• Develop distributed decision-making and coordination strategies
• Design and test degraded communications scenarios
• Ensure autonomy systems operate reliably under contested or intermittent connectivity
• Conduct autonomy testing in live field environments
• Support integration, deployment, and operational demonstrations
• Collect, analyze, and process flight and mission data
• Use operational data to improve autonomy models and system performance

Autonomy Engineer – Aerial, Cross-Domain Integration

Mechanical Engineer

• Develop novel aircraft concepts optimized for collaborative autonomy and swarm operations
• Explore unconventional airframe configurations tailored for multi-vehicle mission profiles
• Evaluate tradeoffs between platform performance, autonomy requirements, and fleet-level capability
• Produce rapid design iterations through sketches, parametric models, and digital prototypes
• Conduct early aerodynamic and configuration trade studies
• Translate conceptual ideas into technically feasible aircraft architectures
• Design aircraft optimized for maritime launch, recovery, and operational environments
• Incorporate communications architectures designed for mesh-native and distributed autonomy systems
• Work closely with other Engineers and advanced development teams to transition concepts into detailed architectures
• Align aircraft concepts with autonomy, compute, and mission system requirements
• Explore launch, recovery, and deployment logistics for autonomous aerial platforms
• Evaluate operational considerations such as transportability, field support, and scalability

Air Vehicle Conceptual Design Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Own software solutions deployed to large vessel customers
• Deliver high-reliability systems aligned to mission objectives
• Integrate and deploy autonomy software onto large maritime platforms
• Collaborate with platform engineering to scale capabilities fleet-wide
• Adapt autonomy systems to vessel-specific constraints and interfaces
• Develop and maintain interfaces using maritime protocols (NMEA, CAN, MQTT, UMAA)
• Ensure standards-compliant data exchange across vessel subsystems and external command networks
• Partner with autonomy, hardware, and mission engineering teams
• Plan, build, and test complex shipboard integrations
• Support field deployments and operational testing
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and debugging frameworks
• Develop performance metrics to ensure reliable autonomy operation at sea
• Diagnose and resolve issues in live vessel deployments
• Coordinate resolution across internal engineering and customer teams
• Translate real-world vessel operational needs into software features
• Balance user experience with technical realities of shipboard environments
• Support shipboard and at-sea deployments as mission requirements dictate

Mission Software Engineer – Large Vessels

Robotics

• Own ground autonomy systems deployed to operational platforms
• Deliver reliable, mission-ready autonomy software
• Design and implement control algorithms (path following, trajectory generation, vehicle dynamics modeling)
• Develop motion planning strategies for diverse and dynamic terrains
• Optimize for stability, precision, and safety
• Develop and integrate perception pipelines for obstacle detection, terrain analysis, and environmental understanding
• Fuse heterogeneous sensors (camera, lidar, radar, IMU) into robust autonomy outputs
• Build and extend ROS2-based autonomy stacks
• Implement mission planning, behavior trees, and real-time navigation logic
• Maintain modular, scalable autonomy architecture
• Partner with embedded, hardware, and mission software teams
• Drive autonomy integration from prototype to field deployment
• Develop monitoring and performance metrics for deployed systems
• Diagnose autonomy failures in real-world environments
• Support live testing, demonstrations, and deployments
• Translate operational ground mission needs into autonomy capabilities
• Balance field constraints with technical feasibility

Robotics Engineer – Ground Autonomy

Security Engineer

• Define and execute HavocAI’s port security GTM strategy across both commercial and government customers.
• Identify priority accounts across commercial port authorities and terminal operators and federal maritime security stakeholders.
• Develop repeatable playbooks for pilots, deployments, and expansion across varied procurement pathways.
• Build and manage a robust pipeline within the port security domain.
• Carry direct responsibility for pipeline development, opportunity advancement, and revenue growth within the port security vertical.
• Lead commercial sales engagements and support government capture efforts.
• Partner with marketing to produce specific materials on port security.
• Engage directly with port directors, harbor masters, security chiefs, and government maritime leaders.

Director of Port and Infrastructure Security

• Own end-to-end perception pipelines deployed to operational systems
• Deliver high-reliability solutions aligned with mission requirements
• Design, train, and optimize perception models for maritime environments
• Develop object detection, classification, and tracking systems
• Work with large vision models (ViT, CLIP, SAM, or similar)
• Fuse multi-modal sensor data (camera, radar, lidar) into unified perception outputs
• Collaborate with hardware teams to select and integrate sensors
• Develop and validate low-level sensor drivers for high-integrity data pipelines
• Deploy models using NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
• Optimize inference for latency and throughput on edge hardware
• Apply quantization, pruning, and other optimization techniques
• Integrate perception outputs into autonomy stacks alongside mission software and platform teams
• Support troubleshooting of perception performance in operational environments
• Define metrics and evaluation frameworks to monitor deployed system health
• Investigate perception failures and drive resolution across teams
• Partner with operators and customers to translate field challenges into engineering solutions

Technical Project Manager

Software Integration Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

UX Lead

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Director of Advanced Development – Aerial Systems

Rapid Prototyping Mechanical/Structures Engineer

Embedded Compute, Power Engineer

Autonomy Engineer – Aerial, Cross-Domain Integration

Air Vehicle Conceptual Design Engineer

Mission Software Engineer – Large Vessels

Mission Software Engineer – Large Vessels

Robotics Engineer – Ground Autonomy

Director of Port and Infrastructure Security

Embedded Perception Engineer