Software Engineer (Radar R&D and Production Focused)

Description

The company builds sensing and detection systems for defense, border protection and commercial air operators. It was founded in 2022, has raised $1B from investors including 8VC, Accel and NEA, and has 200 employees and counting across offices in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and London.

This mid-career radar software engineer role supports research, development and product engineering, starting with next-generation radar products. The work is highly collaborative and covers several capabilities across the product line, with room to build skills across product families.

Responsibilities

• Build research and production software for next-generation radar products.
• Help integrate software onto hardware, mostly commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) units.
• Support software already in use by customers in the U.S. and abroad.

Requirements

• 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.
• Practical experience with Agile methods such as Scrum, continuous integration and test-driven development.
• Able to work with minimal supervision and contribute on small teams.
• Solid understanding of Linux, with extensive hands-on development in it.
• U.S. person status is required, because the role needs access to U.S.-only data systems.
• Preferred: development on ground or airborne sensors such as radar, EO/IR and EW.
• Preferred: designing radar modes and algorithms, including signal processing, target detection and tracking.
• Preferred: current or previous DoD security clearance.
• Preferred: networking experience in software and hardware.
• Preferred: CUDA.
• Preferred: software-defined radios such as Ettus.
• Preferred: time synchronization technologies beyond NTP.
• Preferred: near-real-time embedded software development.
• Preferred: git.
• Preferred: containers such as Docker or Podman.
• Preferred: cloud computing and virtualization such as WSL, KVM, Hyper-V or VMware.
• Preferred: BIOS, Secure Boot, TPM, network boot and PXE.
• Preferred: drive encryption such as LUKS or OPAL.
• Preferred: 2D and 3D visualization, ideally for defense use such as SIMDIS.
• Preferred: DoD system architectures and messaging standards such as OMS, SOSA and Link-16.
• Preferred: modeling and simulation, including hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testbeds such as DIS, VR-Forces and AFSIM.
• Preferred: production software deployment with DevOps, DevSecOps or CI/CD using FOSS and COTS toolsets.
• Preferred: full lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems.
• Preferred: HW/SW integration and test, and V&V of high-TRL systems.
• Preferred: additional languages such as C++, Rust, NodeJS, Java and Go.

Conditions

Full-time, on site at the Los Angeles office in Hawthorne, California.

The stated pay range is the base salary target only. It excludes bonus, equity and benefits. You are welcome to apply even if your pay expectations fall outside it.

The range is an estimate. The actual offer may depend on experience, education, training, critical skills and business considerations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage, with premiums 100% paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match on up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, life insurance and more.
• Free lunch every weekday, 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 are coming soon.