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.
Responsibilities
• Architect a next-generation autonomy stack that combines rigorous robotic foundations with cutting-edge agentic AI for onboard reasoning, adaptation, and swarm coordination. • Define the inter-robot and C2 communication protocols required to enable tactical swarm decision making on the edge. • Make and defend the hard technical tradeoffs: onboard vs. offboard compute, centralized vs. distributed decision making, determinism vs. adaptability. • 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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