Autonomy Software Engineer – Swarm Robotics (Equity)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical benefits

401k plan

PTO and sick leave

Wellness stipend

Catered lunch

Job summary

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network. We are seeking a Software Engineer, Autonomy to own the stack and lead the work, taking autonomy capability from integration and test into fielded operation.

You will own the architectural direction for perception, planning, and control systems across all vehicles, mentor a growing team of robotics engineers, and write clean, efficient code while navigating tradeoffs for onboard vs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• 5+ years building and deploying autonomy software at a major aerospace company or serious autonomous vehicle program.
• Track record of owning architecture for a shipped autonomous system, not just contributing components.
• Deep expertise in at least one systems language (C/C++, Rust, or Go).
• Proven experience deploying and validating frontier autonomy systems, including vision-language-action models, learned world models, trajectory optimization, sensor fusion and multi-agent coordination.
• Excellent software engineering practices with emphasis on testable, reliable code.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our autonomy stack, extending proven robotic foundations with agentic AI for onboard reasoning, adaptation, and swarm coordination at scale.
• Harden and extend the inter-robot and C2 communication protocols behind tactical swarm decision making on the edge, including under degraded and contested comms.
• Revisit and defend the hard technical tradeoffs as we move to aircraft and scale: onboard vs. offboard compute, centralized vs. distributed decision making, determinism vs. adaptability.
• Take autonomy capability from integration and test into fielded operation, and close the loop from test data back into the stack.
• Mentor and technically guide a growing team of robotics engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and set the standard for what good looks like.
• Travel up to 25% of the time for onsite test and integration events.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Go

Multi-agent coordination

Sensor fusion

Vision-language-action models

Test-driven development

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field

Tools

DDS/ROS2

ZeroMQ

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network. We are seeking a Software Engineer, Autonomy to own the stack and lead the work, taking autonomy capability from integration and test into fielded operation.

You will own the architectural direction for perception, planning, and control systems across all vehicles, mentor a growing team of robotics engineers, and write clean, efficient code while navigating tradeoffs for onboard vs.