Senior Ground Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Ground Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to own the full telemetry and command-and-control pipeline for our autonomous underwater vehicle platform. You'll be the type of engineer who has built real telemetry systems for remotely operated vehicles — drones, rockets, or autonomous cars — not just web apps. This is a greenfield opportunity to architect the entire ground software stack from scratch, getting data off vehicles in the field via satellite links and into cloud infrastructure for live viewing and long-term storage. You'll work at a SpaceX-paced early-stage defense company with multimillion-dollar Navy contracts, substantial early-stage equity, and a clear path to Series A. If you can get an MVP to 80% fast and iterate from there, this is your role.

What will you be doing?

- Build the full telemetry pipeline — taking data transmitted from underwater vehicles, routing it through satellite links, and delivering it to AWS for live dashboards and time-series storage

- Design and implement the command-and-control system for issuing commands to vehicles deployed in the field

- Write telemetry emission code in C/C++ or Rust that lives on the embedded Linux side, plus Python-based data processing on the ground

- Build auto-scaling cloud infrastructure (AWS) that adapts dynamically when multiple vehicles are deployed simultaneously on missions

- Work closely with the embedded Linux engineer to define data formats, protocols (Protobuf, Kafka, UDP), and ensure reliable data flow from vehicle to ground station