Autonomy Lead for Swarm AI & Edge Compute

Swarmaero; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Base salary commensurate with exp.

Medical, dental, vision

PTO & sick leave

Wellness stipend

Catered lunch (office)

Job summary

Swarm Aero is redefining air power with the world’s largest swarming UAV and a platform-agnostic autonomy stack. We seek a Software Engineer, Autonomy to own the stack across perception, planning, and control for all aircraft in the swarm.

You will push the architecture, refine edge vs centralized decision making, and mentor robotics engineers while delivering robust, testable code for operation in challenging environments. Travel up to 25% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years building soft-real-time embedded systems.
• Deep expertise in one systems language (Golang, Rust, or C/C++).
• Proven experience deploying robotics algorithms (SLAM, Kalman filters, A*, etc.).
• Working knowledge of embedded protocols and debugging tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the autonomy stack for onboard perception, planning, and control.
• Harden and extend inter-robot and C2 communication protocols for swarm coordination.
• Evaluate tradeoffs for onboard vs offboard compute and centralized vs distributed decision making.
• Move autonomy capabilities from development to fielded operation and feed test data back into the stack.
• Mentor and guide a growing team of robotics engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, efficient code and set engineering standards.
• Travel up to 25% for onsite test and integration events.

Skills

Golang

Rust

C/C++

Embedded systems

Robotics algorithms

Networking fundamentals

Testable code

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

DDS/ROS2

ZeroMQ

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power with the world’s largest swarming UAV and a platform-agnostic autonomy stack. We seek a Software Engineer, Autonomy to own the stack across perception, planning, and control for all aircraft in the swarm.

You will push the architecture, refine edge vs centralized decision making, and mentor robotics engineers while delivering robust, testable code for operation in challenging environments. Travel up to 25% is expected.