Staff Software Engineer – Autonomy

🕒 July 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Swarm Aero

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2022

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Seed on 2024-09

Aerospace • Defense • Manufacturing

Swarm Aero is a developer and manufacturer of uncrewed aerial systems built from the ground up for swarming operations. The company combines on-aircraft autonomy, a universal swarm node (sensor mesh and edge compute), and swarm-scale command-and-control so small teams can mobilize large numbers of UAVs in communications-limited or contested environments. Swarm Aero emphasizes high-rate composite manufacturing and concurrent factory design to scale production, and pursues both defense-focused applications (payloads in contested environments, detecting/tracking mobile assets, security/defense in depth) and civilian uses (cargo delivery, disaster response, resilient communications, environmental observation). The leadership team includes experienced aerospace engineers, high-production manufacturing leads, and senior military advisors.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the autonomy stack, extending robotic foundations with agentic AI for onboard reasoning, adaptation, and swarm coordination at scale • Harden and extend inter-robot and C2 communication protocols for tactical swarm decision-making on the edge, including degraded and contested communications • Make and defend technical tradeoffs involving onboard versus offboard compute, centralized versus distributed decision-making, and determinism versus adaptability • Take autonomy capability from integration and testing into fielded operation, closing the loop from test data back into the stack • Mentor and technically guide a growing team of robotics engineers • Write clean, maintainable, efficient code and set engineering standards • Travel up to 25% of the time for onsite test and integration events

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field • 3+ years building soft-real-time embedded systems • Deep expertise in at least one systems language (Golang, Rust, or C/C++) • Proven experience deploying and validating robotics algorithms (Dubins planning, SLAM, Kalman filters, particle filters, A*, behavior trees, reinforcement learning, etc.) • Working knowledge of embedded systems (SPI/I2C/serial protocols, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, microcontroller programming) • Strong networking fundamentals (NAT, mDNS, UDP/TCP, multicast, firewall configuration) • Excellent software engineering practices with emphasis on testable, reliable code • ITAR eligibility: 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 required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State • Preferred: experience with perception systems, sensor fusion, or multi-target tracking • Preferred: contributions to deployed robotics or IoT systems requiring complex edge processing • Preferred: experience with DDS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, gRPC, Protobuf • Preferred: familiarity with OMS/UCI, STANAG 4586, FACE • Preferred: hands-on electronics skills including breadboarding, soldering, schematic interpretation, and datasheet analysis • Preferred: deep learning experience

🏖️ 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