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The company leverages over a decade of advanced research in robotics and machine learning, as well as a field-test forward ethos, to deliver combined capabilities for unit commanders. Our OverDrive autonomy stack enables ground vehicles to navigate and operate off-road in any terrain without GPS or direct operator control. Our intuitive OverWatch C2 interface provides commanders with precise coordination capabilities essential for mission success.\nOverland AI has secured funding from prominent defense tech investors including 8VC and Point 72, and built trusted partnerships with DARPA, the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command. Backed by eight-figure contracts across the Department of Defense, we are strengthening national security by iterating closely with end users engaged in tactical operations.\nRole Description\nWe are seeking an experienced backend systems engineer to design, build, and run the real-time streaming infrastructure behind remote operation of our vehicles. You'll own the full path that video and telemetry take from the vehicle, across unreliable and bandwidth-limited networks, to the operator, and the path that commands take back.\nYou'll work where low-latency media, networking, and robotics meet. That means building systems that keep the operator aware of what the vehicle sees and keep control safe when links degrade, drop, or switch between cellular, satellite, mesh radio, and other links. You'll make architecture decisions that trade off latency, image quality, reliability, and bandwidth, and you'll write the production code that puts those decisions into practice.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign and build low-latency pipelines for video, telemetry, and feedback streaming between remote vehicles and operator stations.\nDesign transport and session protocols that hold up on intermittent, high-latency, lossy, or asymmetric links. 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Relevant areas include teleoperation of drones or unmanned ground vehicles and cloud game streaming (e.g., Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming).\nA clear understanding of how to design streaming systems for intermittent or degraded links, including packet loss, jitter, reordering, latency spikes, and full disconnects.\nSolid knowledge of networking fundamentals: UDP/TCP, congestion control, NAT traversal, and the trade-offs between reliable and unreliable delivery.\nHands-on experience with video encoding and decoding (e.g., H.264, H.265/HEVC, AV1) and the latency and quality trade-offs that come with them.\nExperience profiling and optimizing performance-critical, concurrent, or multithreaded code.\nA track record of owning complex technical systems from design through deployment and operation.\nA BS in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nDesired Experience & Qualifications\nExperience in defense, aerospace, autonomous vehicles, or other safety-critical fields.\nExperience with WebRTC internals, including media and data channels, SRTP, SCTP, ICE/STUN/TURN, and congestion control algorithms.\nExperience with other real-time transports such as QUIC, RTP/RTCP, SRT, or custom UDP-based protocols.\nExperience streaming over cellular, satellite, or tactical/mesh radio networks.\nExperience with GStreamer, FFmpeg/libav, or similar media frameworks.\nAn understanding of safety considerations in teleoperation system design.\nExperience building network emulation and test setups including custom impairment tooling.\nExperience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for real-time systems.\nStrong written communication skills, with experience writing design documents and leading cross-team technical discussions.\nLocation:\nThe preferred location for this position is Seattle, WA.\nCompensation And Benefits\nPay Range: $180,000 - 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