# Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Palo Alto
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-01
- Skills: Client Roles
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/565df147-4515-48be-af71-7713ade09be4

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a customer-facing product engineering team building cloud and edge software for command and control of autonomous systems. Your work will connect sensors, robotic platforms, and AI-assisted decision-making to support demanding operational missions.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Design, build, and optimize backend and service-layer software for mission-critical autonomous systems.

 - Develop real-time data processing for heterogeneous sensors, including state estimation and threat detection.

 - Build LLM- and AI-enabled systems that assess situations and support timely operational decisions.

 - Integrate sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms, including individual vehicles and coordinated groups.

 - Engineer scalable, reliable, and fail-safe services for high-stakes environments.

 - Work with robotics, hardware, sensing, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

 - Four to ten years of backend or service-layer software engineering experience, with recent hands-on individual contributor work.

 - Experience owning core backend services such as microservices, APIs, or middleware, and building real-time messaging between live external services.

 - Proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java, plus a degree in computer science or a related technical field.

 - Professional experience in autonomy, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, or factory automation. Experience should include shipped software beyond algorithms, simulation, or ML research alone.

 - Experience delivering software in a fast-moving p

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