Forward Deployed Engineer ($175K – $220K + Equity) at Swarm Aero
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About the role
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Job Title
Forward Deployed Engineer
Salary
$175K – $220K + Equity
Company Description
Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV network and command-and-control software to mobilize thousands of autonomous assets. Led by veterans from Blue Origin, Airbus, and Boom Supersonic, the team is redefining air power for the U.S. government and military through superhuman autonomous capabilities and novel aircraft design.
Job Description
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Swarm Aero, you will embed directly with military customers to ensure the technical success of swarming C2 systems. You’ll build critical integrations, debug complex distributed services in austere environments, and write production code that warfighters rely on, bridging the gap between lab-based development and high-stakes operational reality.
Location
Remote
Why this role is remarkable
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
This isn't a trick. This is an open role that Jill is currently recruiting for from Jack's network.
Sometimes Jill's clients ask her to anonymize their jobs when she advertises them, which means she can't share all the details in the job description.
We appreciate this can make them look a bit suspect, but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Jack a spin! You could land this role. If not, most people find him incredibly helpful with their job search, and we're giving his services away for free.
She will pick the best candidates from Jack's network.
The next step is to speak to Jack.
Job Title
Forward Deployed Engineer
Salary
$175K – $220K + Equity
Company Description
Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV network and command-and-control software to mobilize thousands of autonomous assets. Led by veterans from Blue Origin, Airbus, and Boom Supersonic, the team is redefining air power for the U.S. government and military through superhuman autonomous capabilities and novel aircraft design.
Job Description
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Swarm Aero, you will embed directly with military customers to ensure the technical success of swarming C2 systems. You’ll build critical integrations, debug complex distributed services in austere environments, and write production code that warfighters rely on, bridging the gap between lab-based development and high-stakes operational reality.
Location
Remote
Why this role is remarkable
- Work on a critical national security mission alongside a world-class team with experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, and Blue Origin.
- Escape the constraints of traditional staging environments by seeing your code deployed in real-world, high-stakes operational contexts and austere locations.
- Take total ownership of technical success for a platform designed to mobilize thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets simultaneously.
- Build and own critical software integrations that bring command-and-control systems to life across diverse hardware configurations and operational contexts.
- Debug complex distributed systems in the field by analyzing logs and network traffic to resolve failures under tight mission timelines.
- Travel domestically and internationally up to 75% to deploy software and feed field-hardened requirements back to the core engineering team.
- Possesses 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python, C/C++, Golang, or Java.
- Has a solid understanding of networking fundamentals including NAT, DNS/mDNS, UDP/TCP protocols, multicast, and Linux system administration.
- Is eligible to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance and is comfortable operating independently in dynamic, unpredictable field conditions.
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
- Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
- Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
- If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.
This isn't a trick. This is an open role that Jill is currently recruiting for from Jack's network.
Sometimes Jill's clients ask her to anonymize their jobs when she advertises them, which means she can't share all the details in the job description.
We appreciate this can make them look a bit suspect, but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Jack a spin! You could land this role. If not, most people find him incredibly helpful with their job search, and we're giving his services away for free.