Autonomy Test & Integration Engineer

About the role

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We're looking for an Autonomy Test & Integration Engineer to take our perception system from the bench to the open ocean and build the test infrastructure that connects the two. The system detects and tracks vessel traffic for a wing-in-ground-effect craft that takes off and lands on the water. Testing perception on this class of vehicle is a problem very few people have worked on.

Half the job happens on the water. You'll go out with our test and operations team, who run the vessels and the campaigns, and handle the perception side: mounting and cabling cameras and radar on boats, calibrating dockside, and collecting data against live vessel traffic. No two sea days give you the same weather, light, and traffic. The job is planning each one tightly, adapting when hardware or the sea won't cooperate, and coming back with data worth keeping.

The other half is onshore, building what the field work depends on: replay and hardware-in-the-loop setups that let us rerun a sea day on the bench, calibration tooling that keeps sensor data usable, and the integration path that carries new perception software onto our vehicles. Whether a day's results can be trusted comes down to calibration and process, and both are yours. The team iterates as fast as this infrastructure lets it.

Major perception test campaigns are on the calendar for the next year. They'll run on infrastructure and process this role builds between now and then.

If you’re energized by working at the intersection of cutting-edge innovation, real-world impact, and hands-on engineering, you’ll be in the right place - and we’d be thrilled to have you on the team!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Run perception field tests. Define what a test day must produce, set up and calibrate the perception sensor rigs, and run sensor tests on surrogate vessels with our test and operations team.

- Do hands-on integration work. Bring software changes onto real vehicle hardware and troubleshoot what breaks in that transition, across every platform the team supports.

- Own the replay tooling. Operate and extend the hardware-in-the-loop and data-replay infrastructure the team's testing runs on, building on existing recording and evaluation tooling.