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Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend APIs and microservices using Python and C++ for real-time orchestration operations.
- Design event-driven telemetry, sensor-feed, and mission-data pipelines using publish/subscribe patterns.
- Develop responsive React interfaces for mission planning, fleet coordination, and system monitoring.
- Create WebSocket communications for low-latency operator interactions with autonomous systems.
- Build data transformation and aggregation services for autonomous-system data.
- Implement role-based access controls and authentication for multi-user mission-control environments.
- Design and optimize database schemas for high-throughput operational data.
- Integrate vehicle control systems and sensor data streams with autonomy engineers.
- Integrate autonomous platforms through RESTful APIs, ROS2 topics, and message queuing systems.
- Support application resilience and performance through testing, monitoring, and deployment automation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience building production systems.
- Strong C++ skills, including systems programming, multithreading, and performance optimization.
- Expert Python skills with experience using FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Experience with ROS2 middleware, including topics, services, and distributed robotics systems.
- Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and React.
- Strong database design and optimization skills with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience building real-time applications using WebSockets, message queuing, and event-driven data streaming.
- Knowledge of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven system patterns.
- Understanding of Linux system programming and multithreaded application development.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include gRPC/Protobuf, DDS, MQTT, autonomous vehicle systems, Kafka, Redis Streams, ZeroMQ, OpenCV, PCL, Docker, AWS, Grafana, Prometheus, networking, geospatial data, and mission-critical or real-time systems experience.
- Preferred background includes defense, aerospace, or autonomous systems industries.
Benefits
- Hybrid on-site work in Austin, Texas, with up to 20% travel.
- Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage with zero paycheck premiums for employees and their families.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Equity grants for new hires.
- Unlimited PTO and 11 paid holidays.
- Generous company holiday calendar, including a November and December holiday hiatus.
- Parental leave and military leave for annual training or service requirements.
- FSA, DCFSA, and HSA programs.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Access to One Medical and free 24/7 mental-health resources, plus legal and financial support services.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSC++DjangoDockerFastAPIFlaskGrafanagRPCJavaScriptLinuxOpenCVPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactTypeScript
Categories
Full StackRobotics
About NODA AI
NODA AI builds autonomy-orchestration software that coordinates heterogeneous unmanned systems across air, sea, land, and space for defense, intelligence, and select commercial users. The company offers mission-planning and multi-agent control tools that bridge AI-driven intent and real-world execution on UAVs, USVs, and UUVs in contested environments. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a privately held, venture-backed, veteran-owned defense technology company.