14 hours ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain software interfaces between payload hardware, mission applications, and autonomy systems.
- Integrate SDKs and APIs for cameras, gimbals, radios, sensors, and other mission equipment.
- Develop tools and applications for payload configuration, monitoring, and control.
- Customize or extend QGroundControl, TAK-based applications, and related operator interfaces.
- Debug systems spanning Linux, networking, hardware interfaces, and distributed software components.
- Build Docker-based deployment workflows for fielded software capabilities.
- Develop integrations in a side-branch process and collaborate with the core software team to upstream production-ready changes.
- Participate in field testing, demonstrations, payload integration, and operational support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming ability in one or more modern languages such as C++, Python, Rust, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience across multiple layers of the stack.
- Strong Linux experience, including command-line workflows, debugging, and system administration tasks.
- Experience with TCP/IP, UDP, routing, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience integrating software with external systems through APIs, SDKs, or communication protocols.
- Ability to quickly understand and modify large existing codebases.
- Experience developing reliable production software in fast-moving environments.
- Experience with Git, including branching and upstream contributions.
- U.S. citizenship or other eligibility required under ITAR and EAR export-control regulations.
- Preferred experience includes autonomous systems, UAVs, robotics, defense technology, QGroundControl, MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, TAK ecosystems, payload hardware, embedded systems, edge computing, Docker, field deployments, and startup or scale-stage product engineering.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Equity grants for new hires.
- Unlimited PTO and a generous holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in November and December.
- Generous parental leave.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
- Hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- Firestorm covers basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance at 100%, with additional life insurance available for purchase.
- Free 24/7 mental health resources, plus legal and financial support services.
- Based at headquarters in San Diego, California; local candidates and candidates open to relocation are welcomed, and relocation assistance may be available.
- Approximately 10% occasional domestic travel for field testing, integrations, demonstrations, and operational support.
About Firestorm
Firestorm builds modular, open-architecture unmanned systems and mission-configurable hardware for defense customers, leveraging additive manufacturing to rapidly tailor platforms for diverse Department of Defense mission areas. Its fielded xCell platform is being developed in multiple variants and supported across mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing interfaces. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company sells hardware platforms and components to U.S. and allied military programs.