Autonomy Software Engineer - Swarm UAVs

Swarmaero; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Medical/dental/vision

401k

PTO

Wellness stipend

Office lunch

Parental leave

Impactful mission

Engineering team

Job summary

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV network and scaling its autonomy stack across all vehicles. The Software Engineer, Autonomy will own the stack, guide architecture for perception, planning and control, and mentor a growing robotics team.

You will extend onboard reasoning, ensure robust C2 and inter-robot communication, and navigate tradeoffs for airborne compute and contested links while delivering field-ready software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, software engineering, robotics or related field.
• 5+ years building autonomy software in aerospace or autonomous vehicle programs.
• Experience owning architecture for a shipped autonomous system.
• Deep expertise in C/C++, Rust or Go.
• Experience deploying frontier autonomy systems: perception, planning, control, and multi-agent coordination.
• Strong software engineering practices and testable code.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our autonomy stack with onboard reasoning and swarm coordination.
• Harden inter-robot and C2 communication protocols for edge decision making.
• Evaluate tradeoffs for onboard vs offboard compute and centralized vs distributed control.
• Move autonomy capability from integration into fielded operation and close loop with test data.
• Mentor and guide a growing robotics team.
• Write clean, maintainable, efficient code and set coding standards.
• Travel up to 25% for onsite test and integration events.

Skills

Autonomy software

C/C++

Rust

Go

System architecture

Robotics middleware

Vision-language-action

Sensor fusion

Multi-agent coordination

Testable code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/Robotics

Tools

DDS/ROS2

ZeroMQ

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV network and scaling its autonomy stack across all vehicles. The Software Engineer, Autonomy will own the stack, guide architecture for perception, planning and control, and mentor a growing robotics team.

You will extend onboard reasoning, ensure robust C2 and inter-robot communication, and navigate tradeoffs for airborne compute and contested links while delivering field-ready software.