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Our technology has been battle-tested in Ukraine - the world’s most intense proving ground for drone warfare.\nIn March 2026, we became the first Ukrainian defense startup to go public on NASDAQ, following a $15M Series A - the largest investment in a Ukrainian defense tech company since the start of the war.\nWorking at Swarmer means operating at the intersection of engineering rigor and frontline reality. The problems and environments are complex, and the stakes are very real. We built this software to enable democratic nations to defend themselves.\nIf you are motivated by building resilient systems that matter and by seeing the direct impact of your work, you’ll find purpose here.\nWho we’re looking for:\nWe’re looking for a Senior Robotics & Autonomy Engineer to build and harden the collaborative autonomy behind our multi-vendor drone platform.\nYour focus is multi-agent coordination: getting many drones to split tasks, stay out of each other’s way, and plan together in real battlefield conditions.\nWhat you’ll do:\nBuild distributed onboard autonomy that runs in real time across several companion computers, under tight compute and link constraints.\n\nEvolve our multi-agent algorithms (task allocation, deconfliction, collaborative path planning) to work with limited bandwidth, high latency, and packet loss.\n\nTurn R&D algorithms into product-ready code: find bottlenecks, handle edge cases gracefully, and make behavior deterministic and fault-tolerant.\n\nOptimize processing time, power consumption, and data flow.\n\nDesign resilient comms and coordination, including link-aware strategies and degraded-mode behavior when the link drops.\n\nBuild explainability for the swarm: intent and decision logs, human-readable reasoning traces, and post-flight analysis tools.\n\nOwn the simulation pipeline for your features: prepare digital twins, design multi-drone experiments, and close the gap between simulation and real flights in a measurable way.\n\nSupport field tests for your features: work with our test-range team, stay available online during flights, and travel to the test site occasionally.\n\nWhat we need:\n4+ years building decision-making systems for robots or autonomous agents (planners, task allocation, behavior logic).\n\nHands-on experience with multi-agent or multi-robot coordination.\n\nStrong Python on Linux. 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