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Our stack spans embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines - the right candidate will own significant surface area across more than one of these. We move fast, ship frequently, and hold a high bar for reliability and correctness.\nWhat you'll do:\nDesign, build, and own core software systems end-to-end - from architecture decisions through production deployment.\nWrite clean, testable, well-documented code that other engineers can build on confidently.\nLead technical design reviews; identify failure modes before they reach production.\nCollaborate closely with hardware, mechanical, and systems engineers - understand the constraints their work imposes on yours.\nOwn reliability: define SLOs, build observability, respond to incidents, and drive root-cause resolution.\nHire and mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar of the team through code review and shared standards.\nRequired:\n7+ years of professional software engineering, with demonstrable ownership of production systems.\nStrong fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and systems design.\nFluency in at least one of: Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, or TypeScript - and genuine comfort picking up new languages.\nExperience designing and maintaining distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.\nStrong debugging instincts - you find hard bugs methodically, not by luck.\nWorking English, written and verbal.\nNice to have:\nExperience in defense, aerospace, robotics, or other regulated/safety-critical domains.\nBackground in real-time or embedded software, or comfort working close to hardware.\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, or platform engineering.\nFamiliarity with government cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government).\nPrior work on C2 systems, sensor fusion, or autonomous systems.\nHow we work: Small team, fast iteration cycles. 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