Real-Time Data Middleware Engineer — Hybrid/Remote

Big Duck Applied Sciences; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Duck Applied Sciences in Boulder, CO, is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and scale the Intelligent Data-Driven Middleware Framework (IDDMF) for telemetry and flight-test environments. You will work on real-time data ingestion, normalization, serialization, enrichment, and egress pipelines.

This hybrid/remote-eligible role offers internship eligibility and opportunities to collaborate with defense, aerospace, and commercial clients, and to deploy middleware across cloud, on-prem,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
• Experience with backend development in Python or Go
• Familiarity with real-time data processing and API design
• Bonus: telemetry, aerospace, or defense systems

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-throughput data ingestion pipelines for heterogeneous telemetry sources
• Develop protocol- and format-agnostic middleware components (IRIG 106, TmNS, MQTT, gRPC/REST)
• Collaborate with data science team on closed-loop AI/ML optimization integration
• Support deployment across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments

Skills

Python

Go

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

IRIG 106

TmNS

MQTT

gRPC/REST

Job description

Big Duck Applied Sciences in Boulder, CO, is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and scale the Intelligent Data-Driven Middleware Framework (IDDMF) for telemetry and flight-test environments. You will work on real-time data ingestion, normalization, serialization, enrichment, and egress pipelines.

This hybrid/remote-eligible role offers internship eligibility and opportunities to collaborate with defense, aerospace, and commercial clients, and to deploy middleware across cloud, on-prem,