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The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.\nThe team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.\nAbout the Role\nOur autonomy software runs on real programs and real hardware today, and we built it to be platform-agnostic from the start. We're now scaling it onto our own aircraft to field the largest drone swarm in the world. We're looking for Software Engineers, Robotics to build and harden the on-vehicle systems that get us there.\nYou'll work across the stack: vehicle software, sensor and payload integration, planning behaviors, and simulation. This is the work that decides whether capability survives contact with real hardware in the field.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and extend components across our autonomy stack: planning behaviors, vehicle software, sensor and payload integration, and simulation.\n\nGrow the on-vehicle software platform into a real integration surface for first and third-party sensors, payloads, and software modules, so new capability drops in instead of getting rebuilt each time.\n\nCreate and validate physically realistic simulations of UxS, and keep sim honest against what we actually see in flight and field test.\n\nPrototype electronics and troubleshoot complex mixed hardware-software systems, including the failures that only show up on real vehicles.\n\nWrite clean, maintainable, and efficient code.\n\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.\n\n3+ years building soft-realtime embedded systems or robotics software.\n\nDeep expertise in at least one systems language (C/C++, Rust, or Go).\n\nHands-on experience implementing robotics algorithms (path planning, state estimation, behavior trees, etc.).\n\nWorking knowledge of embedded systems (SPI/I2C/serial protocols, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, microcontroller programming).\n\nStrong networking fundamentals (NAT, mDNS, UDP/TCP, multicast, firewall configuration).\n\nExcellent software engineering practices with emphasis on testable, reliable code.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nContributions to deployed robotics or IoT systems requiring complex edge processing (aerospace, autonomous vehicles, etc.).\n\nExperience with robotics middleware (DDS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, gRPC) and serialization formats (Protobuf).\n\nHands-on electronics skills (breadboarding, soldering, schematic interpretation, datasheet analysis).\n\nFamiliarity with government UxS interoperability standards (OMS/UCI, STANAG 4586, FACE).\n\nITAR requirement\nTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.\nSwarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. 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