Technical: Understand the system, in detail and as a whole, to constribute to its improvement.

• Contribute to defining project objectives, scope, and plans

• Justify and challenge design decisions, tradeoffs, and limitations

• Understand the expected behaviour of the project and components

• Understand how the project integrates with other projects

• Triage issues and rapidly narrow down potential sources of error

• Ensure maintainable and testable components

• Maintain and update integration testing methods (e.g. SITL, HITL)

• Maintain and update tooling

Vision: Direction, growth, and development of the team.

• Provide clear direction and technical goals for a working system

Initiative: Proactive action.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks

• Create tasks with minimal interdependencies (i.e. decoupled)

• Take ownership of technical challenges

• Research and experiment with new tools and technologies

• Revisit design decisions

Prioritization: Allocation of resources, due dates, and setting goals.

• Estimate time and resource usage for tasks

• Reevaluate and take corrective action for tasks that exceed time and resource estimates

• Make decisions prudently with consideration to the impact of other projects and subteams

Collaboration: Communication, coordination, and leadership.

• Lead by example and act as a role model

• Involve members in decision making process

• Provide constructive feedback and mentoring

• Foster an positive and productive work environment

• Resolve engineering disagreements: Resolving Engineering Disagreements

• Maintain clear lines of communication and an active presence

• Coordinate with other projects

Administration: Organization of procedures

• Express ideas clearly and concisely in writing

• Record design decisions and justification

• Maintain technical documentation

• Attend meetings, scheduling any additional if necessary