Principal Engineer, Software & Integration Quality

🕒 July 27

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 26%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Darkhive

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🎖️ Defense

🔧 Hardware

🏭 Manufacturing

Defense • Hardware • Manufacturing

Darkhive is a U. S. -based developer of open autonomous robotics systems aimed at defense and public safety customers. The company produces domestically-made hardware and autonomy software to enable robotic capabilities for military, public safety, and related government use, emphasizing open systems and interoperability. Tagline: "Autonomy for Everyone.

📋 Description

• Build and scale software quality engineering and systems integration quality capabilities • Lead integration quality initiatives across cloud services, embedded systems, networking, telemetry, firmware, APIs, and mission systems • Develop scalable software validation, regression testing, and operational readiness strategies • Drive root cause investigations and cross-functional troubleshooting for field and deployment issues • Develop automated test frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, telemetry validation mechanisms, and software release quality processes • Establish software quality KPIs, reliability metrics, and operational dashboards • Partner with software, autonomy, infrastructure, and hardware engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle • Support incident response and operational troubleshooting for customer-critical deployments • Support cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and secure software deployment practices • Mentor and grow software quality and systems integration engineering capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or related technical field • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, software quality engineering, or related disciplines • Strong full-stack engineering background with distributed systems, APIs, backend services, and infrastructure • Experience troubleshooting complex integration and operational issues across software, hardware, networking, and cloud systems • Experience with automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, source control systems, and observability tooling • Strong understanding of software quality methodologies, defect lifecycle management, and operational reliability engineering • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills • Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• Welcoming and collaborative work environment • Mission-driven team and product • Opportunity to build and shape a growing organization • Respect for work-life balance • Exposure to cutting-edge robotics and defense technology