Senior Software Engineer, Rust

Responsibilities

• Define and influence the direction of a small team using subject-matter expertise in target tracking and state estimation.
• Architect, maintain, refactor, and evolve complex production software systems for performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Prototype and deploy algorithms for tracking, multi-sensor data fusion, and state estimation.
• Develop high-performance Rust software for real-time systems, simulations, and decision-support tools.
• Design filters, estimators, and probabilistic reasoning systems for noisy or incomplete sensor data.
• Apply software architecture patterns and best practices to manage technical debt and guide production-system evolution.
• Analyze system performance with high-fidelity simulations, modeling tools, and statistical techniques.
• Customize algorithms and software for mission-critical real-time tracking and sensor-fusion use cases.
• Integrate tracking and estimation technologies across requirements, development, testing, and optimization.
• Communicate technical progress and actionable insights to colleagues, stakeholders, and end users.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience and a bachelor's degree in mathematics, physics, engineering, or another technical field; an advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• Experience managing and evolving software architecture in production, including legacy-system refactoring and technical-debt management.
• At least 2+ years working on a single codebase or product as requirements evolved.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, architectural principles, and maintainable, scalable systems.
• Proficiency in algorithm design, software development, statistical modeling, Rust, and Python.
• Understanding of linear algebra, optimization, probability, and stochastic processes.
• Familiarity with big data pipelines, NoSQL databases, and large-scale sensor data.
• Ability to engineer systems involving estimation theory, adaptive filtering, controls, and complex signal environments.
• Experience across the lifecycle from prototyping through production optimization.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Preferred experience modernizing production Rust codebases, making architectural decisions, and providing technical leadership on long-lived projects.
• Preferred contributions to open-source Rust projects or the Rust ecosystem and experience with concurrent and parallel programming in Rust.
• Preferred experience with state estimation, Bayesian filtering, sensor fusion, recursive estimation, machine learning for tracking and recognition, and signal processing.
• Preferred knowledge of Kalman filters, particle filters, JPDA, MHT, PHD filters, radar, lidar, and EO/IR sensor data.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package for full-time employees available at little to no cost.
• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• The application process requests academic transcripts or detailed relevant coursework information, with unofficial online transcripts accepted and non-technical information permitted to be redacted.