Software Engineer, Swarm Systems

🕒 June 30

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $90k - $124k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Red Cat Holdings

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

🚀 Aerospace

Defense • Manufacturing • Aerospace

Red Cat Holdings is a U. S. -based developer and manufacturer of autonomous unmanned systems and intelligence solutions for defense and security customers. The company builds and integrates small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), FPV drones, extended short-range rotorcraft, and uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) — marketed under product lines like Teal, ARACHNID, Edge 130, and Blue Ops — to provide ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), sensor-to-shooter capabilities, and command-and-control ecosystems. Red Cat emphasizes rugged, low-cost, modular hardware and autonomous software, partners with industry firms (e. g. , Palantir, AeroVironment), and serves military, government, and allied customers including selection for U. S. Army short-range reconnaissance programs.

📋 Description

• Maintain and extend ASR C++ code base for ground station and drone operations • Development of new swarming algorithms • Modifications and extension of our swarm communications protocol • Collaborate with senior engineers on software architecture and adherence to engineering process standards

🎯 Requirements

• Development experience with C++ • Front end web development using HTML CSS, Java Script • Backend wed development using Python • Android development using Java or Kotlin • Strong grasp and preference for object-oriented development methodologies • Mathematical and/or physics background including familiarity with vector operations • Proficient in coding in C and C++ including the standard template library • Foundational low-level knowledge such as compiler operation and memory management • Experience developing in a Linux environment including use of POSIX and similar libraries • Comfort working independently with limited oversight • Experience with software development processes such as Agile • Experience with aerospace software development processes

🏖️ Benefits

• generous annual equity package • potential bonuses