swarmaero - Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems
Responsibilities
• Help architect the backend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft • Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, even when comms drop • Design and build the services that ingest, process, and distribute dense vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link management, much of it with no existing playbook to follow • Own backend features end to end, from design through deployment • Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps • WHAT YOU'VE DONE • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience • 6+ years building complex backend systems with real distributed systems depth • Strong instincts for reliability, performance, and scalability, and the tools to back them up • Built and operated production backend services and APIs at scale • WHAT SETS YOU APART • Experience with real-time and event-driven distributed systems • A track record with performance-sensitive, high-throughput application development • Familiarity with messaging and streaming protocols • Experience operating systems under degraded or intermittent connectivity • Experience with geospatial data or applications
Benefits
• You'll be one of the earliest engineers shaping how humans command autonomous systems at scale, work that's currently being defined in real time, by a small team, with your fingerprints on the architecture. If you want to build the future of human-swarm interaction rather than maintain someone else's, this is that seat. • 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. • 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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