Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

What you'll do

• Own, develop, test, and deploy software solutions that improve products and expand mission capability.
• Collaborate across teams and with end-users to plan complex features, balancing user needs with engineering constraints.
• Analyze metrics, debug and monitor systems, triage issues, and coordinate failure resolution; travel 30% to build, test, and deploy capabilities.

What they ask for

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
• 3+ years working with a variety of programming languages.
• Experience building software involving significant data processing and analysis.
• Active U.S. Secret clearance; ability to navigate complex systems and established code bases.

Nice to have

• Experience with NixOS.
• Experience in autonomous systems, behavior trees, flight or safety-critical systems, distributed networks, or military systems and tactics.

Pay

$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, Rust, Go, NixOS

AI focus

The role develops software for air defense systems that detect, track, identify, deter, and defeat unmanned aerial threats; preferred work includes multi-agent autonomous systems and behavior-tree algorithms.