Software Engineer

• Competitive base compensation with flexibility for exceptional talent
• Meaningful equity participation as part of total rewards
• Company paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401 k match
• Generous paid time off plus holidays
• Strong opportunity to help shape products, team culture, and engineering direction during a major growth phase

• Design and deliver production ready software for autonomous or mission critical systems
• Create reusable libraries and services that can support multiple products and future platform growth
• Build features that improve mission workflows, operator experience, and system level performance
• Work across software, hardware, test, and manufacturing groups to move products from concept into field use
• Support simulation, bench validation, and live system testing to improve reliability and readiness
• Investigate software issues observed in operational environments and implement durable fixes
• Help define application behavior for autonomy, mission execution, and subsystem integration
• Contribute ideas that improve engineering workflows, product capability, and development speed

• 3 plus years of experience developing software in C plus plus and or Python
• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace, defense, automotive, or other high reliability environments
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms, concurrency, software design, debugging, and optimization
• Experience integrating software into larger systems that include hardware, messaging layers, or sensor inputs
• Ability to solve problems independently and work effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Comfort working onsite with a deeply collaborative engineering team
• Helpful experience includes MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, Docker, geospatial tooling, offline first systems, or multi agent autonomy
• Experience supporting deployed systems and working through field issues is strongly valued

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field preferred
• Equivalent practical experience building and delivering complex systems will also be considered
• Candidates should be comfortable in a defense aligned environment and able to meet standard background screening requirements

• Engineer first, specialist second
• Able to move from concept to build to test to deployment
• Enjoys broad ownership rather than narrow task execution
• Interested in working on autonomous technologies with real operational impact

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