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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

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

• Lead the technical staff and technical baseline of the Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Domain, mentoring and growing software and DevSecOps engineers • Own architectural decisions aligned with secure software development, application security, and CI/CD best practices • Communicate technical priorities with product management and manage technical complexity, scalability, and maintainability • Ensure cohesive architecture across capabilities and integration with the common platform baseline • Translate operational imperatives into product capabilities aligned with mission objectives • Serve as technical leader across software, communications, and platform technologies • Deliver interfaces for individual assets and fleets of autonomous and unmanned systems • Design and implement data-rich UIs reflecting real-time distributed-system state • Develop workflows for deploying, updating, and monitoring systems across edge, remote, and disconnected environments • Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs, platform services, and communications technologies • Partner with UX to create intuitive user experiences for complex system behavior • Develop unit, integration, and user acceptance testing strategies • Define technical roadmaps with customers and product stakeholders • Evaluate technologies and products for mission capability, architecture, and security impact • Support customer integrations, demonstrations, testing events, and operational exercises • Communicate and execute effectively in an asynchronous, fully remote environment

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading technical teams developing complex software systems • Expertise solving highly technical problems across multiple knowledge domains • Hands-on technical depth in at least two areas: autonomous/unmanned systems; tactical-edge networking; distributed systems; container and software supply chain tooling • Familiarity with ROS2/DDS, MAVLink, CoT/TAK, and at least one interoperability standard: STANAG 4586/4817, JAUS, Link16/TADL-J, OMS/UCI, or MOSA/SOSA • Experience leading remote engineering teams across distributed organizations • Experience defining technical roadmaps and partnering with product management • Expertise analyzing complex problems and implementing innovative solutions • Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and thrive in a fully remote environment • U.S. Citizenship • Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance • Preferred: Special Operations processes and solutions, tactical communications/radio/edge networking integration, TAK Server, CoT schemas, ATAK plugins, edge AI hardware, DoD ATO systems, automated testing, Agile methodologies, Kubernetes, and active Secret or Top Secret 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) • Federal Holidays • One week for Thanksgiving • Two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)