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Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

Swarm Aero · San Francisco

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In brief

Swarm Aero is hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems in San Francisco.

Duties

  • Help architect the backend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
  • Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, even when comms drop
  • Design and build the services that ingest, process, and distribute dense vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link…
  • Own backend features end to end, from design through deployment
  • Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps

Excerpt from the ad

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for…

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