Software Engineer, Autonomy
Swarm Aero5 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
Base Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the autonomy stack for onboard reasoning, adaptation, and swarm coordination.
- Architect perception, planning, control, inter-robot communication, and command-and-control systems running across the vehicle swarm.
- Harden communication protocols for tactical swarm decision-making under degraded and contested communications.
- Evaluate onboard versus offboard compute and centralized versus distributed decision-making tradeoffs.
- Move autonomy capabilities from integration and testing into fielded operations and incorporate test data into the software stack.
- Mentor and technically guide robotics engineers while establishing standards for clean, maintainable, efficient, testable, and reliable code.
- Travel up to 25% for onsite testing and integration events.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of experience building soft-real-time embedded systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one systems language: Go, Rust, or C/C++.
- Experience deploying and validating robotics algorithms such as Dubins planning, SLAM, Kalman filters, particle filters, A*, behavior trees, and reinforcement learning.
- Working knowledge of embedded systems, SPI/I2C/serial protocols, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and microcontroller programming.
- Strong networking fundamentals including NAT, mDNS, UDP/TCP, multicast, and firewall configuration.
- Excellent software engineering practices focused on testable and reliable code.
- Preferred: experience with perception systems, sensor fusion, multi-target tracking, deployed robotics or IoT systems, complex edge processing, robotics middleware, serialization formats, government UxS interoperability standards, electronics, and deep learning.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR requirements.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company.
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Paid time off and paid sick leave.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Daily catered lunch at the office.
- Paid parental leave.
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission.
- Up to 25% travel for onsite test and integration events.
About Swarm Aero
Swarm Aero develops swarming unmanned aircraft and command-and-control software that coordinate thousands of heterogeneous autonomous drones for defense and national security operations. The privately held company, founded in 2022, is building an aircraft purpose-built for swarm deployments and a distributed perception and sensor-fusion stack to give operators a shared picture of the battlespace.