Junior Software Engineer
Quick Summary
C++, Rust, or C. Our primary codebase is C++20; we do not expect you to know C++20 on day one, but we do expect you to already think in terms of memory, types, and build artifacts.
Artificial intelligence is changing war - making decisions in combat quicker and more accurate, while enabling information to be shared more rapidly across both America’s and her adversaries’ militaries. Modern Intelligence builds Sovereign, the first defense-purpose foundation AI for unmanned systems, to be the standard battlefield AI on every Western unmanned system. Today, Sovereign allows drones as varied as unmanned vessels on water to backpack attack quadcopters to see, decide, and act even when jammed. We believe the responsibility of reliably and ethically building lethally autonomous AI is immense to our service members, the American people, and civilians everywhere.
Modern Intelligence has worked with partners across the Department of War including the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and countless unmanned systems hardware companies.
We have raised more than $22M in venture capital from Exponential, Oxford Funds, Bedrock, Vine Ventures, Contrary, Air Street, Caffeinated, Champion Hill, Swell, Myelin, and others.
We are looking for a software engineer excited to take technology demonstrated on test ranges and relatively peaceful theaters and see it proven on the battlefield.
We have a small software team, but are looking to grow it rapidly. We are seeing significant increase in customer engagement and are looking to expand capacity on an established team. We need engineers willing to travel and support field deployments and integrations. And importantly, we want to take our product to and prove it in Ukraine.
Our product, Sovereign, is an Automated Target Recognition and Automated Terminal Guidance solution that works on any platform in any domain - we are currently working to expand its capability to meet any autonomy requirement for any unmanned system.
We are looking for engineers passionate about drones, autonomy, supporting our service men and women, and defending democracy and freedom around the world.
People’s lives will depend on the code that you write here. If you want to do something that actually matters, let us know.
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $100,000–$120,000 a year
- 42% below the $190,000 median for Software Engineer jobs on Jobera (6,668 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- 48 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 11, 2026
- First seen
- September 11, 2026
- Last seen
- October 28, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 47
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 34%
- Scored at
- October 29, 2026
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