Mid-Career Software Engineer

Description

The company builds defense systems designed by U.S. military veterans and Silicon Valley engineers, and its products run on Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN). Its sensing and detection tools serve warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

The company was founded in 2022, has raised $1B in total funding from 8VC, Accel, and NEA, and has offices in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and London.

The team is hiring a Senior Radar Software Engineer to support R&D and product engineering, starting with next-generation radar products. The work is highly collaborative and spans several capabilities across the product line, and you can build skills across the product families over time.

Responsibilities

• Build research prototypes and production software for next-generation radar products.
• Integrate software onto hardware, mostly commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.
• Maintain software already deployed with U.S. and international customers.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional object-oriented software development.
• Advanced Python skills.
• Experience with Agile practices, including Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development.
• Solid Linux software development experience.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and contribute on small teams.
• U.S. person status, because the role requires access to U.S.-only data systems.
• Optional: experience with ground or airborne sensors (radar, EO/IR, EW, etc.).
• Optional: experience designing radar modes and algorithms, signal processing, target detection, and tracking.
• Optional: current or previous DoD security clearance.
• Optional: networking experience, in software and hardware.
• Optional: CUDA experience.
• Optional: experience with software-defined radios (SDRs), such as Ettus.
• Optional: advanced time synchronization beyond NTP.
• Optional: near-real-time embedded software development.
• Optional: git experience.
• Optional: containers, such as Docker or Podman.
• Optional: familiarity with cloud computing and virtualization, such as WSL, KVM, Hyper-V, or VMware.
• Optional: BIOS, Secure Boot, TPM, Network Boot, or PXE experience.
• Optional: hardware and software drive encryption, such as LUKS or OPAL.
• Optional: 2D and 3D visualization, ideally for defense use cases such as SIMDIS.
• Optional: DoD and related system or software architectures and messaging standards, such as OMS, SOSA, or Link-16.
• Optional: modeling and simulation, including hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testbeds, such as DIS, VR-Forces, or AFSIM.
• Optional: production software development and deployment using DevOps, DevSecOps, or CI/CD with modern FOSS and COTS toolsets.
• Optional: full lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems.
• Optional: HW/SW integration and test and V&V of high-TRL systems.
• Optional: other languages such as C++, Rust, NodeJS, Java, or Go.

Conditions

Work full-time on-site at the Los Angeles (El Segundo), California office.

The base salary range shown is a target and excludes bonus, equity, and benefits. Candidates whose expectations fall outside it are still welcome to apply. The range is an estimate, and the actual offer may depend on factors such as experience, education, training, critical skills, and business needs.

On-site role.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, 100% paid by the company.
• 401k with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more.
• Free daily lunch, no meetings on Fridays, unlimited PTO, and a casual dress code.
• Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, and relocation assistance.
• Annual bonuses, coming soon.