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Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Irvine, CA (OC-62)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building robots and software systems to detect, track, and neutralize airborne threats (UAS) for military warfighters.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Autonomy/Robotics)

Builds

Networked sensors, effectors, and mission software for the Air Defense Family of Systems

Domain

Defense / Robotics / Autonomy

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, Rust, Go, data processing, complex system navigation, pragmatic engineering tradeoffs

Preferred skills

NixOS, multi-agent autonomous systems, behavior trees, flight systems software, distributed communication networks, military tactics

Responsibilities

Own deployed software solutions, write code to scale mission capability, collaborate on complex functionality, analyze metrics for debugging, triage and root cause failures, partner with end-users to define features, travel 30% to build/test/deploy in real world

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