- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Salary
- $190,000–$275,000 a year
Software Engineer, Real-Time Generalist
Job description
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.
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…
Job responsibilities
- 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 operators to control large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, including through degraded or intermittent communications
- Create new ways to represent and interact with vehicle telemetry, sensor data, mission schedules, crew resources, data links, and other complex operational information
- Take ambiguous operational problems from first principles to deployed capability, often without an existing playbook to follow
- Own major features end to end, from system design and technical architecture through implementation, testing, and deployment
- Work closely with operators, designers, and engineers across software, autonomy, and aircraft systems
- Ship early and iterate quickly, supported by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps practices
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