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Havoc AI is a leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy, developing software-defined hardware for military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Havoc enables assets to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments, even when communications are disrupted or denied.
As a Vehicle Autonomy Integration Engineer, you will bring Havoc's autonomy software onto real vehicles and robotic platforms, working at the intersection of autonomy software and physical systems. This is a hands-on role requiring significant time with hardware: bringing up new platforms, debugging interfaces, validating vehicle behavior, and supporting field tests. The company is hiring across experience levels, from early-career to senior and staff-level technical leaders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Integrate Havoc autonomy software onto new and existing robotic platforms, including autonomous vessels, drones, ground vehicles and unmanned systems
- Connect autonomy software to vehicle control systems, autopilots, sensors, actuators, embedded compute and platform-specific interfaces
- Work with autopilot and flight/vehicle control systems, including MAVLink-based interfaces; configure, validate and troubleshoot command and telemetry paths
- Integrate and debug sensors (GPS/INS, IMUs, cameras, radar, lidar, environmental sensors) and build interfaces over CAN, serial, Ethernet, UDP/TCP, MQTT and other protocols
- Support system bring-up, bench testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, dockside and ground testing, sea trials, flight tests and field demonstrations
- Diagnose issues across software, networking, embedded hardware, sensors, power, controls and platform behavior using logs, telemetry, test equipment and field observations
- Build scripts, tools, configuration files, interface documentation and repeatable integration procedures
- Partner with autonomy, embedded software, hardware, field operations and product teams to improve integration and reliability
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Experience integrating software with real hardware (robotic platforms, vehicles, sensors, actuators, embedded systems)
- Programming or scripting experience in C++, Python, Bash or similar languages
- Comfortable working in Linux and troubleshooting with command-line tools, logs, telemetry and network diagnostics
- Working knowledge of at least one hardware or network interface (CAN, serial, Ethernet, UDP/TCP, MQTT)
- Strong systems thinking and debugging skills across software, hardware, networking and controls
- High ownership, strong communication, comfort in fast-moving lab and field environments
- Able to work hybrid schedule from North Kingstown, RI facility with regular hands-on vehicle integration and testing
- Able to travel up to 25% for field testing, customer demonstrations, integration events and deployments
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
Preferred Skills:
- ROS or ROS 2 and distributed robotics software architectures
- CAN bus, serial, Ethernet, MQTT, DDS or other real-time vehicle communication systems
- MAVLink, ArduPilot, PX4, MAVSDK, MAVROS, QGroundControl, Mission Planner or similar autopilot ecosystems
- Experience integrating autonomous vessels, drones, ground vehicles or robotic systems
- Vehicle control systems, actuators, motor controllers, ESCs, steering, propulsion or safety interfaces
- GPS/INS, radar, cameras, lidar, radios or autonomy sensor integration
- Docker, embedded Linux, NVIDIA Jetson or edge-compute platforms
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing, system bring-up, field testing, sea trials, flight testing or operational demonstrations
- Maritime, drone, robotics, defense or dual-use technology experience
- Active or prior security clearance
