swarmaero - Software Engineer, Autonomy
Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field. • 5+ years building and deploying autonomy software at a major aerospace company or serious autonomous vehicle program. • Track record of owning architecture for a shipped autonomous system, not just contributing components to one. • Deep expertise in at least one systems language (C/C++, Rust, or Go). • Proven experience deploying and validating frontier autonomy systems, including vision-language-action models, learned world models, trajectory optimization, sensor fusion, and multi-agent coordination. • Excellent software engineering practices with emphasis on testable, reliable code. • Experience with multi-agent or swarm systems. • Experience with robotics middleware (DDS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, gRPC) and serialization formats (Protobuf). • Familiarity with government UxS interoperability standards (OMS/UCI, STANAG 4586, FACE). • Prior tech lead, staff engineer, or architect responsibility on an autonomy team. • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance. Active Secret clearance preferred but not required. • ITAR requirement • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant 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.
Responsibilities
• Own and evolve our autonomy stack, extending proven robotic foundations with agentic AI for onboard reasoning, adaptation, and swarm coordination at scale. • Harden and extend the inter-robot and C2 communication protocols behind tactical swarm decision making on the edge, including under degraded and contested comms. • Revisit and defend the hard technical tradeoffs as we move to aircraft and scale: onboard vs. offboard compute, centralized vs. distributed decision making, determinism vs. adaptability. Some of our current answers carry over. Some won't survive the move to airborne compute and contested comms. You'll decide which. • Take autonomy capability from integration and test into fielded operation, and close the loop from test data back into the stack. • Mentor and technically guide a growing team of robotics engineers. • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and set the standard for what good looks like. • Travel up to 25% of the time for onsite test and integration events.
Benefits
• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience • Medical, dental, vision, and 401k • PTO and paid sick leave • Monthly wellness stipend • Daily catered lunch (office) • Paid parental leave • Direct impact on a critical national security mission • A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
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