4 months ago
Taiwan (city not specified)Mid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain adapters and translation layers connecting NODA’s autonomy orchestration platform with partner vehicles, sensors, and autonomy stacks.
- Own end-to-end integration testing from bench bring-up through HITL/SITL validation and live field deployment.
- Debug issues across application software, messaging middleware, networking, embedded Linux, RF, and hardware/software boundaries.
- Interface with firmware and BSP teams to isolate integration failures and support root-cause investigations.
- Serve as NODA’s primary technical interface with Taiwanese OEMs, government partners, hardware vendors, and field teams in English and Mandarin.
- Characterize system behavior under degraded, intermittent, or contested communication conditions.
- Translate partner and field requirements into system constraints and maintain Interface Control Documents and integration contracts.
- Build logging, tracing, and metrics into integration components and support field exercises in Taiwan.
Requirements
- 4–8 years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful work in systems integration, middleware, drivers, or robotics software.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and/or Python with experience writing production-quality code.
- Working knowledge of embedded Linux and operating-system constructs such as process scheduling, IPC, and device architecture.
- Fluency with pub-sub middleware, including Zenoh or comparable systems, and distributed multi-agent routing and latency behavior.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, multicast, and basic routing for connectivity and performance debugging.
- Familiarity with RF and wireless concepts including link quality, interference, and basic link-budget reasoning.
- Experience debugging across application, middleware, network, and hardware-adjacent layers, plus Linux systems and command-line debugging tools.
- Professional fluency in English and Traditional Mandarin Chinese.
- Legal authorization to work in Taiwan, eligibility to access export-controlled technology, and compliance with applicable U.S. and Taiwan regulations.
- Ability to travel within Taiwan for field exercises and partner or military deployments.
- Preferred experience includes MAVLink, ArduPilot, PX4, autonomous or unmanned vehicles, DDS, ROS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, MQTT, sensor integration, HITL/SITL, Taiwan defense or government programs, GCS/C2 tooling, ICDs, requirements traceability, integration test plans, tactical radios, MANET, or mesh networking.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, equity grants for eligible employees, and career growth opportunities.
- National Health Insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision care.
- Pension plan with employer contributions.
- Competitive time off, paid parental leave where eligible, and paid public holidays according to Taiwan law.
- Flexible working arrangements where business needs permit; the role is Taiwan-based and hybrid.
- Professional development and learning opportunities.
- Full-time or contractor engagement is available, with approximately 20% typical travel and increased travel during field exercises and partner engagements.
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.