Senior Software Engineer - Rust

Professional experience in software engineering, embedded systems, or firmware development - delivering production-grade product

Strong proficiency in Rust - experience in low-level, embedded or no_std environments a bonus

Experience integrating with microcontroller peripherals and hardware interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB, etc.)

Familiarity with software design, algorithm implementation, debugging/testing/profiling, and performance optimization

Working knowledge of:

Distributed systems, data-distribution and network architectures

Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/UDP, BLE/LoRa, routing)

Trust systems, certificate management, and encryption schemes

Modern data patterns, CRDTs, offline-first, synchronization/replication

Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / SCI security clearance

Experience developing autonomy, robotics, or human-machine-AI teaming systems

Experience applying machine learning techniques, including supervised/unsupervised learning, clustering, and classification

Experience with software-defined radio, MANET, and industrial/robotics communications systems

Experience optimizing systems for speed, size, power consumption, and cost

Experience contributing to open-source projects or industry standards bodies

Experience deploying systems in contested or disconnected edge environments

Distributed autonomy platforms that assist operators in decision-making and mission execution

Human-machine-AI collaboration systems operating around the globe

Real-time sensor integration, edge processing, and data distribution

Robust deployment infrastructure enabling secure, trusted/traceable updates in fielded systems

Systems that must operate reliably in degraded, disconnected, or adversarial environments

Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

Kubernetes

Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)

Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)

Continuous Delivery and automation tooling

GitOps

Containers

CNCF projects and open source products and packages

Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping

Building and improving security delivery

Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications

Medical/Dental/Vision

Premiums are 100% Company Paid

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s

Paid Parental Leave

Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions

Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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