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Swarm Aero

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Oct 26, 2026
Salary
$170,000–$220,000 a year
Full-time

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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