True Talent Solutions Partners
Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems (C2/Backend/Service)
Palo Alto
cloud · edge services
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a customer-facing product engineering team building command-and-control and autonomy software for robotic and autonomous systems. You will develop cloud and edge services that connect sensors, platforms, and AI-enabled decision-making for operational missions.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, build, and optimize software for mission-critical autonomous systems.
- Develop services that process data from diverse sensors for real-time state estimation and threat detection.
- Build AI- and LLM-enabled systems that assess situations and support rapid operational decisions.
- Integrate sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms, including systems operating individually or in groups.
- Engineer reliable, scalable, and fail-safe software 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 building and owning backend services such as APIs, microservices, or middleware, and real-time data or messaging integrations across live services.
- Proficiency in one or more of Rust, Python, C++, or Java, and a degree in computer science or a related technical field.
- Practical experience in autonomy, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, or factory automation, beyond algorithm, simulation, or ML research alone.
- Experience shipping software in a fast-paced, prototype-to-field environment.
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