Robotics Software Engineer – UAV Swarm Autonomy Equity

Swarmaero; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

401k

PTO

Wellness stipend

Lunch provided

Parental leave

Job summary

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network. We are moving quickly to field the first aircraft designed for swarming and the command & Control software to mobilize thousands of autonomous assets.

As a Software Engineer, Robotics, you will work across the stack—from vehicle software and sensor integration to planning behaviors and simulation—to ensure capability survives real hardware in the field.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build and extend components across our autonomy stack: planning behaviors, vehicle software, sensor and payload integration, and simulation.
• Grow the on-vehicle software platform into a real integration surface for first and third-party sensors, payloads, and software modules, so new capability drops in instead of getting rebuilt each time.
• Create and validate physically realistic simulations of UxS, and keep sim honest against what we actually see in flight and field test.
• Prototype electronics and troubleshoot complex mixed hardware-software systems, including the failures that only show up on real vehicles.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Skills

Soft-realtime embedded systems

Robotics software

C/C++

Rust

Go

Robotics algorithms

Embedded systems protocols

Networking fundamentals

Testable software practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

ROS2/DDS

ZeroMQ

gRPC

Protobuf

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network. We are moving quickly to field the first aircraft designed for swarming and the command & Control software to mobilize thousands of autonomous assets.

As a Software Engineer, Robotics, you will work across the stack—from vehicle software and sensor integration to planning behaviors and simulation—to ensure capability survives real hardware in the field.