Backed by Bessemer.
About the role
As a Systems Software Engineer , you will work across NODA's cross-system infrastructure — the messaging fabric, gateway, and runtime built on real-time messaging frameworks (DDS, ROS/ROS2, and similar) that coordinate fleets of heterogeneous unmanned systems in real time — debugging and resolving issues that don't respect team boundaries.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time debugging distributed, real-time, or multi-service systems in production
- Strong proficiency in C++ and/or Python, with the ability to write production-quality software with architect-level supervision on system design
- Experience with real-time or low-latency messaging/middleware (e.g., DDS, ROS/ROS2, ZeroMQ, MQTT, gRPC) in distributed or multi-agent contexts
- Solid working knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, multicast, basic routing) sufficient to debug connectivity/performance issues and converse credibly with networking engineers
- Working familiarity — conversational depth plus basic debugging, not specialist design work — with RF/wireless concepts (link quality, interference, basic link budget reasoning)
- Comfortable using basic hardware bench tools (multimeter, oscilloscope) to debug at the hardware/software boundary
More about this role
Travel: ~20% typical; up to ~50% during field exercises and partner/military deployments
Clearance: U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance
NODA is a veteran-owned, venture-backed technology company transforming how unmanned systems collaborate in complex, mission-critical environments. As NODA scales across products, partners, and deployment environments, keeping the system coherent in practice — not just on paper — is what separates a platform that works in the field from one that only works in a demo.
Our Systems Software Engineers are the people who can stand at the seam between subsystems — software, networking, RF, and hardware — and make sense of what's actually happening when something breaks in degraded, contested, or denied conditions. You won't be the deepest RF, networking, or hardware specialist in the room, but you'll be able to hold your own in that conversation, pinpoint where in the stack a problem actually lives, and write the software — or pick up a multimeter — needed to prove it.
As a Systems Software Engineer , you will work across NODA's cross-system infrastructure — the messaging fabric, gateway, and runtime built on real-time messaging...
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