Mission Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Triage, diagnose, and resolve technical issues for deployed imaging systems across hardware, firmware, and software layers.
• Develop and maintain modular software services for edge-compute devices in austere environments.
• Provide direct technical support to field operators and non-technical users to resolve hardware issues.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for external team integrations and customer-facing technical support.
• Optimize system interactions and graceful degradation by maintaining a deep understanding of the full technology stack.
• Plan, build, and test complex software functionality in coordination with firmware, hardware, and platform engineers.
• Travel up to 25% of the time to conduct field testing and support customer integrations.

What we're looking for

• Must have 3+ years of software development experience with meaningful production ownership.
• Must have deep proficiency in C++, TypeScript (Node.js/React), or Python and ability to work across stack boundaries in a second language.
• Must have 3+ years of experience working in Linux-based environments with hands-on bare-metal hardware work.
• Must demonstrate the ability to diagnose and resolve issues across networking, services, and hardware interaction boundaries.
• Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills to explain technical problems to non-technical audiences.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
• Strength with performance-sensitive, real-time, or resource-constrained systems (preferred).
• Experience with gRPC, systemd, Nix/NixOS, or imaging/ISR systems (preferred).