Swarmaero
Software Engineer, Autonomy
- Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
- $170k–$250k
- Mid level
- Full-time
- Remote
- 5+ yrs exp
- Added 3 weeks ago
About this role
Swarm Aero seeks a Software Engineer, Autonomy to lead the scaling of their autonomy stack for a large-scale drone swarm. You'll own the architectural direction for perception, planning, and control systems, while mentoring a growing team of robotics engineers. This role offers the opportunity to directly contribute to a critical national security mission within a rapidly growing defense technology company.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve the autonomy stack with agentic AI.
- Harden and extend communication protocols for swarm decision-making.
- Evaluate and defend technical tradeoffs related to onboard vs. offboard compute and centralized vs. distributed decision-making.
- Transition autonomy capabilities from testing to fielded operations.
- Mentor and guide a team of robotics engineers.
- Write clean, testable, and reliable code.
What they're looking for
- Autonomy Software
- Perception Systems
- Planning Systems
- Control Systems
- C/C++ or Rust or Go
- Multi-agent Coordination
- Robotics Middleware (DDS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, gRPC)
- Vision-Language-Action Models
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401k
- PTO and Paid Sick Leave
- Wellness Stipend
- Paid Parental Leave
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Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience owning the architecture for a shipped autonomous system.
- Explain your approach to balancing determinism and adaptability in a real-time control system.