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Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a Mission Software Engineering team to build, deploy, and sustain electronic warfare (EW) software systems for military operations, ensuring operational readiness in contested environments.

Role type

Lead Mission Software Engineer (EW)

Builds

Next-generation electronic warfare platforms (hardware-enabled, software-defined systems)

Domain

Defense / Electronic Warfare / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Software engineering leadership, system architecture, embedded systems, Linux administration, debugging in production, cross-stack integration, incident response, customer engagement

Preferred skills

Electronic warfare systems, software-defined radio, Haskell, Rust, Nix/NixOS, containerized deployments, distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines

Technologies

Haskell, Rust, C++, Go, TypeScript, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, NixOS

Responsibilities

Build and grow the EW Mission Software Engineering team, set technical direction and engineering standards, personally contribute to system debugging and integration, own delivery and field deployment of operational systems, triage field issues and drive root cause analysis, establish incident response processes, partner with operators to translate mission needs into engineering actions, coordinate release engineering for field builds

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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