Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

True Talent Solutions Partners • Palo Alto, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join a customer-facing product engineering team building command-and-control and autonomous systems software for operational and tactical missions. Develop cloud and edge services that connect sensors, autonomous platforms, and AI-enabled decision-making in high-stakes environments. The position is hybrid in Palo Alto, California.

Requirements

• Four to ten years of hands-on backend or service-layer software engineering experience, with a track record of owning core services such as APIs, microservices, or middleware.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java.
• A technical degree in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Experience building real-time data and messaging integrations between live external services.
• Background in autonomy, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, or factory automation.
• Experience shipping software in a fast prototype-to-field environment.
• Hands-on engineering experience beyond algorithm development, simulation, or ML research.
• US work authorization without sponsorship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with LLM systems, AI agents, or toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize software for mission-critical autonomous systems.
• Build backend services and real-time messaging integrations connecting external systems and platforms.
• Develop software that processes data from diverse sensors for real-time state estimation and threat detection.
• Build LLM- and AI-enabled systems that assess threats and support timely responses.
• Integrate sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms, including individual systems and swarms.
• Engineer scalable, reliable, and fail-safe systems in partnership with robotics, hardware, sensing, and systems engineering teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior