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About the role
Echodyne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build our next-generation radar software platform advancing mission-critical security for defense and automotive applications. You’ll play a key role in architecting robust solutions, collaborating across engineering, product, and UX, and ensuring our technology thrives in real-world, dynamic environments.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years building customer-facing, production-grade software systems
- Modern full-stack expertise: React (or equivalent) front-ends and async backend services (Tokio/Rust or similar)
- Strong experience with modular architectures, documented API contracts, and robust service lifecycles
- Designed for real-world constraints: field/defense/automotive deployments or similar high-stakes, performance-critical systems
- Hands-on with Python and/or Rust and/or C/C++ for practical, scalable solutions
- Skilled collaborator with product, UX, and technical experts, strong communication in cross-functional contexts
More about this role
Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).
Echodyne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build our next-generation radar software platform advancing mission-critical security for defense and automotive applications. You’ll play a key role in architecting robust solutions, collaborating across engineering, product, and UX, and ensuring our technology thrives in real-world, dynamic environments.
- Deliver core platform components: async (Tokio/Rust) backend services, well-defined APIs, and real-time...
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