Software Engineer, Robotics

Swarm Aero is building swarming unmanned aerial vehicles and Command & Control software for autonomous aircraft networks. The Software Engineer, Robotics will develop components across the autonomy stack, including vehicle software, sensor and payload integration, planning behaviors, and simulation, while supporting electronics prototyping and onsite testing.

Responsibilities:

• Build components across the autonomy stack: planning behaviors, vehicle software, sensor and payload integration, and simulation
• Build the core on-vehicle software platform to allow integration of a variety of first and third-party sensors, payloads, and software modules
• Create and validate physically realistic simulations of UxS
• Perform electronics prototyping including troubleshooting complex mixed hardware-software systems
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Travel up to 25% of the time for onsite test and integration events

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
• • 3+ years building soft-realtime embedded systems or robotics software
• • Deep expertise in at least one systems language (C/C++, Rust, or Go)
• • Hands-on experience implementing robotics algorithms (path planning, state estimation, behavior trees, etc.)
• • Working knowledge of embedded systems (SPI/I2C/serial protocols, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, microcontroller programming)
• • Strong networking fundamentals (NAT, mDNS, UDP/TCP, multicast, firewall configuration)
• • Excellent software engineering practices with emphasis on testable, reliable code
• ITAR requirement To 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
• • Contributions to deployed robotics or IoT systems requiring complex edge processing (aerospace, autonomous vehicles, etc.)
• • Experience with robotics middleware (DDS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, gRPC) and serialization formats (Protobuf)
• • Hands-on electronics skills (breadboarding, soldering, schematic interpretation, datasheet analysis)
• • Familiarity with government UxS interoperability standards (OMS/UCI, STANAG 4586, FACE)