Swarm Aero
Software Engineer, Real-Time Generalist
$190K–$275K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Remote - Experience
- 4+ years building complex full-stack applications.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance. For ITAR compliance, applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Build and shape Legion, a real-time Command & Control platform for planning and directing large swarms of heterogeneous aircraft.
What you'll do
- Architect and build full-stack systems, interfaces, and collaborative real-time infrastructure for aircraft swarm control, including under intermittent communications.
- Develop ways to visualize and interact with telemetry, sensor data, mission schedules, crew resources, and data links.
- Own features from system design through implementation, testing, and deployment, collaborating across software, autonomy, aircraft systems, design, and operations.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years building complex full-stack applications with frontend and backend depth.
- Strong UI/UX instincts.
- Production web-interface experience with React or a comparable modern framework.
Nice to have
- Experience with immediate-mode and retained-mode UI paradigms, performance-sensitive applications, video streaming protocols, WebGL/OpenGL, or geospatial applications.
- Active Secret clearance is preferred but not required.
Pay
$190K – $275K (base salary)
Tools
React, WebGL, OpenGL
AI focus
Build a Command & Control platform for operators to plan and direct heterogeneous autonomous aircraft swarms in real time.
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