Senior Software Engineer

### Who you are
- This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy systems programming, autonomy, and solving real-world problems for national security missions
- Professional experience in software engineering, embedded systems, or firmware development - delivering production-grade product
- Strong proficiency in Rust - experience in low-level, embedded or no_std environments a bonus
- Experience integrating with microcontroller peripherals and hardware interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, etc.)
- Familiarity with software design, algorithm implementation, debugging/testing/profiling, and performance optimization
- Working knowledge of:
- Distributed systems, data-distribution and network architectures
- Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/UDP, BLE/LoRa, routing)
- Trust systems, certificate management, and encryption schemes
- Modern data patterns, CRDTs, offline-first, synchronization/replication
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / SCI security clearance
- Experience developing autonomy, robotics, or human-machine-AI teaming systems
- Experience applying machine learning techniques, including supervised/unsupervised learning, clustering, and classification
- Experience with software-defined radio, MANET, and industrial/robotics communications systems
- Experience optimizing systems for speed, size, power consumption, and cost
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or industry standards bodies
- Experience deploying systems in contested or disconnected edge environments
- If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role!

### What the job involves
- We are seeking a mission-driven Rust Software Engineer to build resilient software systems that enable human-machine-AI teaming and autonomous capabilities for military operators at the tactical edge
- In this role, you will design and implement high-performance systems in Rust that operate in constrained, contested environments. You will contribute across the full system lifecycle — from architecture and hardware integration through simulation, testing, and field deployment
- You will work alongside engineers, researchers, and operators to develop systems that fuse sensing, autonomy, and decision support while ensuring traceable, deterministic builds and reliable deployments in mission-critical environments
- Design and implement high-performance, distributed, software systems in Rust, targeting cloud-native as well as resource-constrained and edge computing environments
- Participate in system architecture, network topologies, hardware part evaluation, and engineering reviews for both existing product revisions and new systems
- Develop software/models systems that supports human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop autonomy workflows for distributed operations
- Build infrastructure enabling deterministic builds, reproducible environments, and configuration management to ensure traceability and maintainability
- Implement and maintain systems with over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms for field-deployed systems - virtual machines, containers, and embedded packages
- Integrate software with microcontroller peripherals and hardware buses (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, AXI, etc.)
- Develop and execute comprehensive experiment and test strategies including:
- Unit testing
- Software-in-the-Loop (SITL)
- Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL)
- Functional, end-to-end system/field/scale testing
- Collaborate with mission heroes and multidisciplinary teams to deploy and sustain systems, supporting integration and various exercises and operational events
- Optimize systems for performance, reliability, power consumption, and maintainability
- What You’ll Work On:
- Distributed autonomy platforms that assist operators in decision-making and mission execution
- Human-machine-AI collaboration systems operating around the globe
- Real-time sensor integration, edge processing, and data distribution
- Robust deployment infrastructure enabling secure, trusted/traceable updates in fielded systems
- Systems that must operate reliably in degraded, disconnected, or adversarial environments

### Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision (premiums are 100% company paid)
- Health reimbursement account
- Life insurance & disability insurance
- 401k with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
- Company stock options
- Home office setup budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)