Principal Engineer, Edge Applications & Mission Systems (R6245)

What you'll do

• Own platform architecture across operator applications, backend services, mission data, integration interfaces, and edge deployments; guide extensibility and interoperability with C2 and BMS systems.
• Lead technical roadmaps and delivery for mission planning, fleet management, operator and agentic workflows, and operation in disconnected or degraded environments.
• Partner with customers and internal teams through requirements, acceptance, deployment, sustainment, and field-informed product improvements.

What they ask for

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, or an equivalent record of technical depth and impact.
• 5+ years of technical leadership as a technical lead, architect, Principal Engineer, or equivalent.
• Deep experience developing defense GCS and C2 applications, plus a record of shipping and sustaining software products for defense customers.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Lattice or comparable defense C2/BMS or mission-management systems.
• Experience delivering agentic or AI-assisted applications, including workflow orchestration, human-machine teaming, evaluation, and operator supervision.

Tools

Lattice, APIs, SDKs

AI focus

Partner with autonomy and AI teams on agentic workflows and AI-assisted applications, with clear operator authority, approval boundaries, observability, and evaluation criteria.