Swarm Aero - Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote)

$180k - $240k

Full-time

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Source: Paraform - (NOTE: Paraform shows this role as not accepting new applications as of 2026-10-12)

Compensation: $180,000-$240,000 + competitive equity.

Location: US-based remote (listed San Francisco); 50-75% domestic and international travel to coastal/water-adjacent sites. Visa: not open to any visas (US citizen / Green Card).

About this role

Forward Deployed Engineer with 5-7 years of experience to embed directly with U.S. military and government customers and own the technical success of Swarm Aero's C2 systems in live operational environments. Equal parts software engineer and field operator: writing production code, debugging distributed systems under pressure, and deploying software in high-stakes contexts.

What will you be doing?

Deploy and integrate C2 software on-site with military operators, domestic and international (50-75% travel)
Break-fix troubleshooting and rapid code development in the field; gather requirements from uniformed operators and ship same-day
Work with drone operators, potentially flying assets in air, water or land during live missions
Feed field insights back to core engineering
Operate autonomously in ambiguous, resource-constrained environments (hardware, code, technician work)

Tech stack

Golang, React, Python, C/C++, Java, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

About Swarm Aero

Building the largest swarming UAV and swarming aircraft network, plus C2 software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets. Team from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer, Blue Origin, Boom. 12 employees, founded 2022, $59M total funding.

5-7 years full-stack software engineering and/or forward-deployed engineering
US citizen or Green Card holder
Comfortable with 50-75% travel

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