Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

About the Role

Join a customer-facing product engineering team building command-and-control and autonomy software for robotic and unmanned systems. You will develop cloud and edge services that help operators manage sensors, platforms, and intelligent decision-making in demanding operational environments.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and optimize mission-critical backend and systems software for autonomous platforms.

• Build real-time services and messaging that connect sensors, effectors, and unmanned systems.

• Develop software that processes heterogeneous sensor data for real-time state estimation and threat detection.

• Integrate LLM- and AI-driven systems that support threat assessment and operational decisions.

• Engineer reliable, scalable, and fail-safe systems for high-stakes environments.

• Work with robotics, hardware, sensing, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.

What We're Looking For

• Four to ten years of experience in backend or service-layer software engineering, with recent hands-on individual contributor work.

• A technical degree, such as computer science, robotics, or electrical engineering.

• Strong proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java.

• Experience building and owning backend services, APIs, or middleware, and real-time data or messaging integrations between live external services.

• Background in autonomy, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, or factory automation, and experience shipping software in a rapid prototype-to-field environment.

• Experience integrating LLM systems or AI agents, or building toolchains, is useful.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship and be eligible for a security clearance.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $145,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid in Palo Alto, California.