Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Firestorm builds modular autonomous aircraft designed to adapt across missions, payloads, and deployment environments. Firestorm OS is the common software platform that enables those aircraft. It provides the Linux-based services, communications, media, hardware interfaces, SDKs, and system capabilities used across Firestorm aircraft and their variants. As the aircraft portfolio grows, Firestorm OS has to remain reusable across different sensors, payloads, radios, propulsion systems, and compute platforms while integrating with systems provided by partners and government. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in the Firestorm OS group to lead integrations. You will own the integrations with third party SDK’s from partners and governement. You will also contribute to the integration of third party payloads. You will work across autonomy, avionics, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering to ensure integration and interoperability of the evolving aircraft portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong C++ programming ability and software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience working across multiple layers of the software stack.
- Strong Linux experience, including command-line workflows, debugging, and system administration tasks.
- Experience with networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, UDP, routing, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience integrating software with external systems through APIs, SDKs, or communication protocols.
- Ability to quickly understand and modify large existing codebases.
- Experience developing reliable production software in fast-moving environments.
- Experience with Git, including branching and contributing changes to shared production software repositories.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across software and hardware engineering teams.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
Nice To Haves
- Experience building software for autonomous systems, robotics, aircraft, or other complex embedded products
- Experience with vehicle or robotics interfaces such as MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, or similar platforms
- Experience building SDKs, hardware abstraction layers, or platform APIs for other engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Lead software integrations — Own the integration of third-party SDKs, APIs, and software systems from partners and government into Firestorm's aircraft and software platform.
- Integrate mission systems — Build and maintain software interfaces between external systems, mission applications, autonomy systems, and Firestorm OS.
- Integrate payloads — Own the integration of payloads from concept to release: cameras, gimbals, radios, sensors, and other third-party mission equipment.
- Build integration tools — Develop tools and applications that support system configuration, monitoring, control, and integration activities.
- Debug the full system — Lead resolution of problems spanning Linux, networking, hardware interfaces, and distributed software components.
- Drive production-ready integrations — Collaborate with the core software team to make integration changes production-ready and contribute them to shared software repositories.
- Support field integration — Participate in field testing, demonstrations, and integration activities to ensure integrated capabilities work as expected in operational environments.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plans
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Equity grants for new hires
- Unlimited PTO
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in July & December.
- Generous Parental Leave
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- FSA
- DCFSA
- HSA
- Hospital Indemnity insurance
- Critical Illness insurance
- Accident insurance
- Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% covered by Firestorm.
- Option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your family.
- Mental Health Resources: free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and more.
- Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, are available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
