Our Autonomous Air System V&V team builds the simulation and validation environments that enable rigorous testing of autonomous air systems before they ever leave the ground. We develop Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) environments that allow engineers to integrate, test, and assure AI-driven capabilities against virtualised and representative hardware.
We build software that is subject to significant and unorthodox technical constraints, must operate in a wide variety of constantly-changing environments, and has to support an ever-growing list of challenging use-cases. What we build ultimately ends up in the hands of real people in high-risk, high-stress situations – from mission planning to command and control (C2) and mission debrief – so must be both reliable and frictionless.
Taken together, this brings a whole host of interesting engineering challenges across a wide variety of fields that you’ll help us solve. To give some examples:
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Data visualization (e.g., rendering complex simulation outputs, test results, and AI behavior in human-understandable ways)
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Human-Autonomy Teaming (e.g., UIs for effective human oversight, control, and trust calibration)
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Real-time interfaces (e.g., live test execution dashboards, simulation monitoring, and streaming data displays)
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Complex technical UIs (e.g., making dense, multi-dimensional data accessible to engineers and operators)
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Design systems (e.g., building reusable component libraries that enable rapid, consistent UI development across products)
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Frontend performance (e.g., efficiently rendering large datasets, optimizing real-time updates, and maintaining responsiveness under load)
In several of these areas, we are working near the state-of-the-art; we actively read (and sometimes implement) research papers, and often need to push even further to make theory work in practice. In others, we are applying well-known techniques to real-world situations (with real-world limitations) that have never been used in before, which requires skill, diligence, and honing a deep understanding of the underlying technologies.