NODA AI
Senior Systems Software Engineer
Austin · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- The posting states U.S. citizenship is required due to ITAR regulations, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance. Its export-control section also states applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or otherwise eligible to obtain required authorizations.
About the job
Debug and improve cross-system software and infrastructure coordinating unmanned systems, investigating issues across software, networking, RF, and hardware, and supporting system verification and release decisions.
What you'll do
- Resolve cross-system integration, performance, and latency issues across messaging, gateways, runtimes, and connected hardware.
- Write and maintain software, investigate behavior in degraded or contested conditions, and perform basic hardware diagnostics.
- Support system health through performance baselines, crash analysis, verification evidence, observability, and integration tooling.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time debugging distributed, real-time, or multi-service systems in production.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and/or Python; experience with real-time or low-latency messaging/middleware in distributed or multi-agent contexts.
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, familiarity with RF/wireless concepts, and ability to debug across software, network, RF, and hardware-adjacent layers.
- Experience with Linux systems and command-line debugging; comfortable using a multimeter and oscilloscope.
Nice to have
- Experience with contested or denied conditions, embedded or real-time systems, simulation, or HIL/SIL workflows.
- Familiarity with Docker/K8s, observability tooling, tactical communications, or authoring ICDs.
Tools
C++, Python, DDS, ROS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, MQTT, gRPC, Linux
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