Real-Time Systems Engineer – Swarm Command & Control

Swarmaero; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive base salary

Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

PTO and paid sick leave

Monthly wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch (office)

Paid parental leave

Direct impact on national security

World-class engineering team

Job summary

Swarm Aero is redefining air power with Legion, the Command & Control platform for a networked drone swarm. You will help architect the full stack and define core patterns that scale as the system grows, enabling a single operator to coordinate thousands of autonomous assets in real time.

You’ll own major features end to end, from system design through deployment, and work closely with operators, designers, and engineers across software, autonomy, and aircraft systems.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years building complex full stack applications with real frontend and backend depth.
• Strong UI/UX instincts and the tools to back them up.
• Built production web interfaces with React or a comparable modern framework.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the full stack of a Command & Control system directing large swarms of heterogeneous aircraft.
• Design foundational systems, technical patterns, and interfaces for Legion as it scales.
• Build collaborative, real-time infrastructure enabling operators to control many aircraft, even with degraded or intermittent communications.
• Create new ways to represent and interact with telemetry, sensor data, schedules, crew resources, data links, and complex operational information.
• Tackle ambiguous problems from first principles to deployed capability, often without a playbook.

Skills

Full stack development

UI/UX design

Frontend & Backend depth

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

React

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power with Legion, the Command & Control platform for a networked drone swarm. You will help architect the full stack and define core patterns that scale as the system grows, enabling a single operator to coordinate thousands of autonomous assets in real time.

You’ll own major features end to end, from system design through deployment, and work closely with operators, designers, and engineers across software, autonomy, and aircraft systems.