About the Role
We are seeking a mission-driven Rust Software Engineer to build resilient software systems that enable human-machine-AI teaming and autonomous capabilities for military operators at the tactical edge.
In this role, you will design and implement high-performance systems in Rust that operate in constrained, contested environments. You will contribute across the full system lifecycle — from architecture and hardware integration through simulation, testing, and field deployment.
You will work alongside engineers, researchers, and operators to develop systems that fuse sensing, autonomy, and decision support while ensuring traceable, deterministic builds and reliable deployments in mission-critical environments.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy systems programming, autonomy, and solving real-world problems for national security missions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance, distributed, software systems in Rust, targeting cloud-native as well as resource-constrained and edge computing environments
- Participate in system architecture, network topologies, hardware part evaluation, and engineering reviews for both existing product revisions and new systems
- Develop software/models systems that supports human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop autonomy workflows for distributed operations
- Build infrastructure enabling deterministic builds, reproducible environments, and configuration management to ensure traceability and maintainability
- Implement and maintain systems with over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms for field-deployed systems - virtual machines, containers, and embedded packages
- Integrate software with microcontroller peripherals and hardware buses (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, AXI, etc.)
- Unit testing
- Software-in-the-Loop (SITL)
- Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL)
- Functional, end-to-end system/field/scale testing
- Collaborate with mission heroes and multidisciplinary teams to deploy and sustain systems, supporting integration and various exercises and operational events
- Optimize systems for performance, reliability, power consumption, and maintainability
Required Qualifications
- Professional experience in software engineering, embedded systems, or firmware development - delivering production-grade product
- Strong proficiency in Rust - experience in low-level, embedded or no_std environments a bonus
- Experience integrating with microcontroller peripherals and hardware interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, etc.)
- Familiarity with software design, algorithm implementation, debugging/testing/profiling, and performance optimization
- Distributed systems, data-distribution and network architectures
- Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/UDP, BLE/LoRa, routing)
- Trust