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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Defense • Software • Cybersecurity

Defense Unicorns is a cutting-edge technology company focused on transforming the way the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) procures and deploys mission-critical software capabilities. Through its Airgap App Store and Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), Defense Unicorns offers a centralized marketplace of trusted, pre-approved applications designed for rapid, secure, and compliant deployments in the most secure and complex DoD environments. The company emphasizes speed and reliability in software delivery, catering to various missions across domains such as Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force. Defense Unicorns meets the unique challenges of DevSecOps for defense systems, ensuring operational adaptability and security in mission-critical software deployments.

📋 Description

• Design and implement high-performance, distributed, software systems in Rust, targeting cloud-native as well as resource-constrained and edge computing environments • Participate in system architecture, network topologies, hardware part evaluation, and engineering reviews for both existing product revisions and new systems • Develop software/models systems that supports human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop autonomy workflows for distributed operations • Build infrastructure enabling deterministic builds, reproducible environments, and configuration management to ensure traceability and maintainability • Implement and maintain systems with over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms for field-deployed systems - virtual machines, containers, and embedded packages • Integrate software with microcontroller peripherals and hardware buses (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, AXI, etc.) • Develop and execute comprehensive experiment and test strategies including: • Unit testing • Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) • Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) • Functional, end-to-end system/field/scale testing • Collaborate with mission heroes and multidisciplinary teams to deploy and sustain systems, supporting integration and various exercises and operational events • Optimize systems for performance, reliability, power consumption, and maintainability

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience in software engineering, embedded systems, or firmware development - delivering production-grade product • Strong proficiency in Rust - experience in low-level, embedded or no_std environments a bonus • Experience integrating with microcontroller peripherals and hardware interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, etc.) • Familiarity with software design, algorithm implementation, debugging/testing/profiling, and performance optimization • Working knowledge of: • Distributed systems, data-distribution and network architectures • Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/UDP, BLE/LoRa, routing) • Trust systems, certificate management, and encryption schemes • Modern data patterns, CRDTs, offline-first, synchronization/replication • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / SCI security clearance.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision • Premiums are 100% Company Paid • Health Savings Account • Life Insurance • Disability Insurance • 401k Retirement Plan • Company Stock Options • Home Office Budget • Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)