Software Engineer, Real-Time Generalist

🏢 Swarmaero · 📍 San Francisco · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.

The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.

The Opportunity

Most full stack roles ask you to move pixels around a dashboard. This one asks you to help architect the system that controls the largest drone swarm on the planet.

You’ll join the team building Legion, Swarm Aero’s Command & Control platform. Legion enables a single operator to plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft in real time, over intermittent communications, and at a scale nobody else in the industry is attempting.

This is not a role maintaining a finished product or adding features around the edges. You’ll help define the architecture, establish core technical patterns, and build entirely new capabilities for a problem space with little prior art. The work spans real-time distributed systems, dense telemetry visualization, collaborative mission planning, and operator interfaces where clarity and reliability directly affect mission outcomes.

You’ll have meaningful influence over what we build, how we build it, and how the platform evolves as the team and system scale.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Help architect and build the full stack of a Command & Control system directing large swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
Design the foundational systems, technical patterns, and interfaces that will shape Legion as it scales
Build collaborative, real-time infrastructure that allows o

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Swarmaero Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing high-precision aerospace engineering, autonomous swarm robotics, and safety-critical software/hardware integration.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating hardware debugging or safety protocols with a 'move fast and break things' carelessness
2. Lacking foundational knowledge in aerodynamics, control theory, or embedded systems
3. Inability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary aerospace teams

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I design fault-tolerant autonomous swarm systems built for extreme aerospace environments.

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