Impactful Software Engineer Intern (Defense Tech)

Swarm Aero; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Medical/dental/vision

401k

PTO & sick leave

Wellness stipend

Catered lunch

Parental leave

Impactful mission

World-class team

Job summary

Swarm Aero in the United States is offering an internship to own a scoped project and deliver useful work for our swarming aircraft and Legion control system, with mentorship from the people responsible for the system.

You will build features across frontend and backend, work on telemetry interfaces and data pipelines, write tests, and prepare a final presentation that demonstrates what you built and learned over the summer.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong programming fundamentals and experience building a substantial software project.
• Experience with a modern frontend framework, backend language, systems language, or full-stack application.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs, debug methodically, and write maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Build product features across frontend, backend, full-stack, real-time, or forward-deployed software
• Develop interfaces for telemetry, geospatial data, mission planning, scheduling, collaboration, or system health
• Build and operate backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, or data pipelines
• Write automated tests, improve developer tooling, and help ship production-quality software
• Support integration and test events, debug issues across services and networks, and turn what you learn into product improvements

Skills

Programming fundamentals

Frontend framework

Backend language

Full-stack development

Systems language

Debugging

Explain tradeoffs

Education

CS/SWE degree

Tools

React

TypeScript

Go

Python

Rust

C++

Job description

Swarm Aero in the United States is offering an internship to own a scoped project and deliver useful work for our swarming aircraft and Legion control system, with mentorship from the people responsible for the system.

You will build features across frontend and backend, work on telemetry interfaces and data pipelines, write tests, and prepare a final presentation that demonstrates what you built and learned over the summer.