Systems Software Engineer (Generalist)

Join our team as a Systems Software Engineer, where you will develop software for autonomous maritime systems. This role requires expertise in software, hardware, robotics, and distributed systems. You will design, develop, and maintain software for autonomous vehicle systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and optimize software performance in mission-critical environments. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with real-world hardware and complex cyber-physical environments.

• Design, develop, and maintain software for autonomous vehicle systems and supporting infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to optimize software performance, reliability, observability, and fault tolerance in mission-critical environments.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making across software and systems domains, contributing to the continuous improvement of engineering processes.
• The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering fundamentals and has experience developing systems that interact with real-world hardware, robotics platforms, autonomous systems, or other complex cyber-physical environments
• Strong understanding of Linux-based development environments
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• C++
• Strong proficiency in one or more of:
• Experience developing software for systems that interact with physical hardware
• Rust
• Experience with software architecture, debugging, testing, and performance optimization
• Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional engineering environments
• Experience working on complex distributed, real-time, embedded, robotics, autonomy, aerospace, defense, maritime, automotive, industrial automation, or similar systems
• Go
• Python
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, device drivers, or hardware communication protocols
• Experience with robotics, autonomous systems, UAVs, UGVs, USVs, or maritime platforms
• Experience with networking, distributed systems, middleware, or communication frameworks
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, backend services, and deployment pipelines
• Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics frameworks
• Experience integrating software with sensors, controls, or electromechanical systems
• Experience supporting field testing and operational deployments
• Exposure to defense, aerospace, maritime, or other mission-critical environments
• Aerospace or Defense Software Development
• Autonomous Systems Engineering
• Successful candidates may come from a variety of backgrounds, including:
• Platform Engineering
• Embedded Software Engineering
• The common thread is a demonstrated ability to build software that interacts with and enables complex hardware systems in real-world environments
• Robotics Engineering
• Systems Software Engineering
• Backend Software Engineering
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Occasional reaching, bending, or stooping to access file drawers, cabinets, or office supplies
• Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment
• Lifting and carrying items up to 20 pounds occasionally (e.g., office supplies, packages)
• Occasional standing and walking within the office
• Visual acuity to read screens, documents, and reports
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer