Mission Software Engineer

About the Team

The Imaging team builds and fields state-of-the-art camera and sensor systems deployed to solve real security challenges for the United States and its allies. We work across the full stack from bare-metal hardware and firmware to networked services and cloud integrations and we own our systems all the way through to the field. When something breaks in a deployed environment we fix it.

About the Role

Were looking for a Mission Software Engineer to join the Imaging Interfaces team. This is not a pure product development role. You will spend meaningful time keeping fielded systems alive triaging issues across the full stack and serving as a technical representative for our products in integrations with external teams and customers.

The work is varied and sometimes ambiguous. You might spend a morning extending a gRPC service an afternoon diagnosing a time sync issue on a deployed device over the phone with a field operator and a week traveling to support a customer integration. Youll need to be comfortable with that range--and ideally energized by it.

If you want to own your software end-to-end in a fast-moving environment where the stakes are real this role is built for you.

What Youll Do

Own fielded system success. You are responsible for the health and uptime of deployed imaging systems. When issues arise--whether the root cause is in your code the firmware the network or the hardware--you triage diagnose and drive resolution.

Build and maintain production services. Youll develop and extend modular software services that run on edge-compute devices in austere environments. These services need to be reliable observable and maintainable by engineers who didnt write them.

Support field operations. Youll work directly with field operators and non-technical users to diagnose and resolve issues on deployed hardware. Clear communication under pressure is part of the job.

Represent the team externally. Youll serve as a subject matter expert in integrations with other products and teams; sometimes remotely sometimes on-site. You dont need to know everything but you need to be able to speak credibly across the full system stack and know what you dont know.

Maintain end-to-end system understanding. Our devices sit at the intersection of hardware firmware networking and software. Youll develop broad fluency across that stack over time and apply it to optimize how our services interact and degrade gracefully when components fail.

Collaborate across teams. Youll plan build and test complex functionality alongside firmware hardware and platform engineers. Youll need to be effective working across team and organizational boundaries.

Travel expected approximately 25% of the time for field testing and customer integrations.

What Were Looking For

Required

• 3 years of software development with meaningful production ownership: not just shipping features but owning systems after they ship (their health uptime and behavior once they are in users hands).
• Deep proficiency in at least one of C TypeScript( or Python and the ability to work effectively across the stack boundary in a second language (reading debugging and modifying code outside your primary). Our work spans a large TypeScript/React operator-facing UI and a growing body of C services running on edge hardware and C depth is increasingly central as we expand across our imaging product lines.
• Comfort ramping quickly into unfamiliar languages tools and deployment systems. Our language and tooling mix varies by product and shifts over time; we value engineers who get productive in a new stack rather than staying in one lane.
• 3 years working in Linux-based environments including hands-on work with bare-metal hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues across system boundaries (networking services hardware interaction) without always having full visibility into every component.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical problems clearly to non-technical audiences including operators in the field.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.

Preferred

• Strength with performance-sensitive real-time or resource-constrained systems (edge or embedded).
• Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks.
• Familiarity with systemd service management and observability practices on Linux.
• Familiarity with Nix or NixOS: uncommon but genuinely valuable and something you will use daily on our stack.
• Experience supporting fielded or deployed systems not just development environments.
• Experience with imaging EO/IR ISR or command-and-control (C2) systems.

What Makes Someone Successful Here

The engineers who thrive in this role share a few traits that dont always show up on a resume:

They close loops. When they pick up a problem they own it until its resolved not until its someone elses problem.

They communicate proactively. They dont wait to be asked for a status update. They document what they find share what they learn and keep the people who need to know informed.

Theyre comfortable with ambiguity at the stack boundary. When a device behaves unexpectedly in the field the root cause could be anywhere. They have a methodology for narrowing it down systematically rather than guessing or waiting for someone else to have the answer.

They represent the team well customer integrations and partner engagements theyre the face of what weve built. They take that seriously.

US Salary Range

$166000 - $220000 USD

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Benefits

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