Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a customer-facing product engineering team building cloud and edge software for command and control of autonomous systems. Your work will connect sensors, robotic platforms, and AI-assisted decision-making to support demanding operational missions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and optimize backend and service-layer software for mission-critical autonomous systems. - Develop real-time data processing for heterogeneous sensors, including state estimation and threat detection. - Build LLM- and AI-enabled systems that assess situations and support timely operational decisions. - Integrate sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms, including individual vehicles and coordinated groups. - Engineer scalable, reliable, and fail-safe services 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 backend or service-layer software engineering experience, with recent hands-on individual contributor work. - Experience owning core backend services such as microservices, APIs, or middleware, and building real-time messaging between live external services. - Proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java, plus a degree in computer science or a related technical field. - Professional experience in autonomy, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, or factory automation. Experience should include shipped software beyond algorithms, simulation, or ML research alone. - Experience delivering software in a fast-moving prototype-to-field environment. Familiarity with LLM integrations, AI agents, or toolchains is useful. - US work authorization, US citizenship, and eligibility to obtain a security clearance are required. Visa sponsorship is not available.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

Hybrid role based in Palo Alto, California.