Principal Engineer, Real-Time Visualization
Swarmaero · Remote
What this role requires
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Job description
Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.
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.
Most frontend roles ask you to move pixels around a dashboard. This one asks you to own the interface that controls the largest drone swarm on the planet.
Legion is our Command & Control platform, and it's in operators' hands today. It lets a single operator plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft, in real time, over intermittent comms. Your job is to take the frontend through the next order of magnitude: more vehicles, harder missions, worse comms, at a scale nobody else in the industry is attempting.
This isn't CRUD. It's real-time, dense telemetry visualization, and interface design for a problem space that barely has prior art anywhere in the industry.
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WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own the frontend architecture for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft, and take it from what works today to what has to work at scale
Evolve our real-time, collaborative interfaces for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, including when comms degrade or drop entirely
Design and ship new UI concepts for representing vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, and data link management, much of it with no playbook to follow anywhere in the industry
Work directly with the operators running Legion today, and close the loop from mission feedback back into the interface
Set the frontend architecture, patterns, and standards the rest of the team builds on, and decide which of our current patterns survive the next generation
Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps
WHAT YOU'VE DONE
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
8+ years building complex, production frontend applications, with a track record of owning frontend architecture
Deep experience building production web interfaces with React or a comparable modern framework
Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction for a frontend team
WHAT SETS YOU APART
Experience with both immediate mode (games, simulation) and retained mode UI paradigms
A track record with performance-sensitive application development
Familiarity with video streaming protocols
Good UI/UX instincts
WebGL/OpenGL experience
Experience with geospatial applications
WHY THIS ROLE You'll be one of the earliest engineers shaping how humans command autonomous systems at scale, work that's currently being defined in real time, by a small team, with your fingerprints on the architecture. If you want to build the future of human-swarm interaction rather than maintain someone else's, this is that seat.
ITAR requirement
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. What We Offer
Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
PTO and paid sick leave
Monthly wellness stipend
Daily catered lunch (office)
Paid parental leave
Direct impact on a critical national security mission
A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
Compensation: $250K – $325K • Offers Equity
• $250K – $325K • Offers Equity
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