- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Oct 26, 2026
- Salary
- $170,000–$220,000 a year
Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems (Early Career)
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.
Legion's Command & Control platform lets a single operator plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft, in real time, over intermittent comms, at a scale nobody else in the industry is attempting. That means distributed state under unreliable networks, dense telemetry moving fast enough to strain anything you've built before, and interfaces for a problem space that barely has prior art.
Job responsibilities
- Build and ship features in the C2 system that directs swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
- Work on systems that hold state and stay responsive when comms degrade or drop entirely
- Move between the interface layer and the services behind it, following the problem rather than a job description
- Prototype new ways to represent and control vehicle telemetry, sensor data, and scheduling
- Take features end to end, from a rough problem statement through design, implementation, and deployment
- Ship early and often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps
Job requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent self-taught depth
- Real strength in fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, systems
- Evidence you've built something hard because you wanted to. A renderer, an emulator, a game, a compiler, a multiplayer server, a robotics project, a serious open source contribution.
- Comfort writing code at more than one layer of the stack, and no strong attachment to staying at one
- Willingness to work on problems where the right answer isn't known yet, and to be wrong in public on the way to finding it
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