# Software Engineer, Autonomy at Swarm Aero

- Company: Swarm Aero
- What the company does: Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
- Company website: https://swarm.aero
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $170K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmaero/b9081408-93dc-40c0-b0b5-37aa5522f0fa
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/swarm-aero-software-engineer-autonomy/

## About the role

We've built an autonomy stack that already runs on real programs and real hardware, and we designed it to be platform-agnostic from the start. The next step is the one that matters most: scaling it onto our own aircraft to field the largest drone swarm in the world. We're looking for a Software Engineer, Autonomy to own that stack and lead the work.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field
- 5+ years building and deploying autonomy software at a major aerospace company or serious autonomous vehicle program
- Track record of owning architecture for a shipped autonomous system, not just contributing components to one
- Deep expertise in at least one systems language (C/C++, Rust, or Go)
- Proven experience deploying and validating frontier autonomy systems, including vision-language-action models, learned world models, trajectory optimization, sensor fusion, and multi-agent coordination
- Excellent software engineering practices with emphasis on testable, reliable code

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