Senior Ground Software Engineer: Full-Stack for AUV Autonomy

Odin Dynamics, Inc; City of Long Beach (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

401k

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Odin Dynamics is hiring a Senior Ground Software Engineer to serve as the Responsible Engineer for the ground software stack of our autonomous underwater vehicle platform. This role encompasses the complete lifecycle from requirements and architecture through production deployment and field support.

You will build full-stack software for mission planning, telemetry handling, data review, and remote mission-control workflows, collaborating across autonomy, embedded, avionics, and test engineering

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing full-stack production software across frontend and backend.
• Strong frontend product development delivering usable operator-facing software.
• Strong backend and API development for production applications.
• Experience building telemetry pipelines and time-series data systems.
• Ability to design software for constrained or high-latency communications.
• Experience with testing (unit/integration/SIL/HITL) and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for the ground software stack.
• Develop greenfield ground software from initial requirements and architecture through field-tested, production-ready implementation.
• Build frontend and backend software for mission planning, operator workflows, vehicle supervision, telemetry visualization, data review, post-mission analysis, and remote mission-control workflows.
• Design and implement operator-facing interfaces that help users plan missions, understand vehicle state, inspect telemetry, review data, and make effective decisions.
• Build backend services, APIs, data models, and application logic to support development, test, field operations, and production use.
• Develop telemetry ingestion, validation, normalization, storage, visualization, alerting, replay, and analysis capabilities.
• Design data storage and handling approaches for high-volume telemetry, logs, mission data, analysis results, and time-series data.
• Develop tools for engineering analysis, log inspection, anomaly investigation, mission replay, system debugging, and failure analysis.
• Build map-based and geospatial workflows for planning, route visualization, constraints, review, and operational awareness.
• Develop ground software that can support connected and disconnected use, intermittent or constrained communications, and on-premises or cloud-hosted deployment models.
• Work closely with Autonomy Software, Embedded Software, Avionics, Test Engineering, and Operations to support vehicle integration, mission planning, telemetry, diagnostics, simulation, replay, and field testing.
• Test and validate software using unit tests, integration tests, system-level tests, SIL, simulation and replay, and HITL test environments.
• Analyze ground software behavior, telemetry pipelines, data integrity, operator workflows, and system performance to identify root causes and drive corrective improvements.
• Build software with appropriate product-security considerations, including authentication, authorization, auditability, data protection, secure deployment, and operation in constrained or disconnected environments.
• Write, review, test, profile, and debug production software using modern frontend, backend, database, and data-processing technologies.
• Build automated development workflows using modern build systems, CI/CD, static analysis, profiling, automated testing, and software-quality tooling.
• Produce concise, functional engineering documentation that enables implementation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and future development.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, data analysis, and documentation while independently validating outputs and maintaining a first-principles understanding of the resulting system.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical reviews without moving away from hands‑on engineering.
• Support field testing and sea trials when required, work directly with operators, and may support operational use during tests.

Skills

Full-stack

Frontend dev

Backend dev

API development

Telemetry pipelines

Data processing

Testing frameworks

Geospatial workflows

Security-conscious

Field testing

Autonomy software

Job description

Odin Dynamics is hiring a Senior Ground Software Engineer to serve as the Responsible Engineer for the ground software stack of our autonomous underwater vehicle platform. This role encompasses the complete lifecycle from requirements and architecture through production deployment and field support.

You will build full-stack software for mission planning, telemetry handling, data review, and remote mission-control workflows, collaborating across autonomy, embedded, avionics, and test engineering