Senior Director, Collaborative Autonomy and Swarms Systems
True Anomaly
Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA
Full-Time
$265,000
RemoteDirector
A new space race has begun. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build innovative technology that solves the next generation of engineering, manufacturing, and operational challenges for space security and sustainability.
OUR MISSION
The peaceful use of space is essential for continued prosperity on Earthfrom communications and finance to navigation and logistics. True Anomaly builds innovative technology at the intersection of spacecraft, software, and AI to enhance the capabilities of the U.S., its allies, and commercial partners. We safeguard global security by ensuring space access and sustainability for all.
OUR VALUES
YOUR MISSION
We are seeking a visionary engineering leader to establish and lead a new organizational pillar focused on Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). This role introduces a new layer of intelligence that enables heterogeneous vehicles to coordinate, reason, and act as a single, resilient, distributed organism. Your mandate is to fundamentally change the unit of operationfrom the vehicle to the swarm.
You will operate at the intersection of embedded firmware, flight software, and high-performance control theorybridging these domains with a system-of-systems architecture that scales autonomy beyond the single agent.
In this role, you will build and lead a deeply technical organization responsible for collaborative autonomy across a heterogeneous fleet, recruiting senior engineers in robotics software, distributed systems, estimation, and control. You will remain personally accountable for the architectural coherence and technical correctness of the swarm stack, defining the mathematical and computational foundations that govern multi-agent behavior at scale.
You will own the architecture of the Swarm Executive, defining how agents represent and exchange state, maintain shared beliefs, and converge on decisions under asynchronous communication, partial observability, and degraded network conditions. This includes the design of distributed coordination mechanismssuch as leader election and auction-based task allocationimplemented with explicit consideration for latency, packet loss, and failure modes, and composed to preserve estimation and control stability.
You will design the collaborative agent abstraction layer that decouples swarm-level logic from vehicle-specific dynamics, enabling invariant interfaces and unified control laws across heterogeneous platforms while preserving controllability, observability, and stability. You will partner closely with GNC, Flight Software, and Firmware teams to define strict interfaces and control contracts, ensuring swarm-level decisions decompose safely into vehicle-level autonomy without introducing hidden dynamics or unsafe emergent behavior.
Finally, you will define and enforce swarm-level safety and assurance, advancing beyond test-based verification toward formal methods, compositional guarantees, and runtime monitoring for non-deterministic, distributed systems. You will establish the conditions under which swarm behavior is provably safe, stable, and mission-effective in the presence of uncertainty, failures, and environmental complexity.
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.
This position will be open until it is successfully filled. To submit your application, please follow the directions below. #LI-Onsite
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
True Anomaly is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us.