5 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$130k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and own bespoke, frontend-heavy UIs for defense-system users.
- Develop real-time geospatial interfaces integrating live video, maps, and operational controls.
- Contribute across the stack, including backend implementation when product features require it.
- Work with product, design, and customers to turn ambiguous needs into shipped products.
- Travel occasionally to customer sites to understand requirements, test constraints, and iterate in the field.
- Deliver robust, usable solutions with strong ownership of customer value.
Requirements
- Experience building production frontend applications with React and TypeScript or an equivalent modern web stack.
- Strong UI/UX intuition.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive fuzzy problems toward concrete, high-leverage solutions.
- Strong ownership mindset focused on shipping customer value and robust, usable solutions.
- Full-stack or generalist experience with the ability to contribute to backend work.
- Preferred: experience optimizing web applications in resource- and bandwidth-constrained environments.
- Preferred: experience with real-time, data-heavy, or geospatial applications such as maps, tracking, control systems, or fleet management.
- Preferred: experience with Deck.gl, Mapbox, or MapLibre.
- Preferred: experience with ATAK integrations or Android development.
- Preferred: experience building offline-first web applications.
- Applicants must satisfy U.S. government export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $150,000–$220,000 per year, excluding other compensation components.
- Significant stock options.
- 401(k) with employer matching.
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Relocation assistance.
- Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum and 11 paid holidays per year.
- Paid parental leave for both parents.
- Lunch provided in the office and a stocked kitchenette.
- Remote/hybrid-friendly work environment.
- Free EV charging at headquarters.
- El Segundo, California office with coffee, snacks, and craft beer.
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About Picogrid
Picogrid builds hardware and software to integrate mission-critical systems, connecting sensors, unmanned platforms, and command-and-control tools into a single operational picture. Defense and industrial customers use its platform to unify control of autonomous assets and stream data across land, sea, air, and space operations; the company sells devices and enterprise software and services. Picogrid is privately held and headquartered in El Segundo, California, with backing from Silicon Valley investors.