Senior Systems Software Engineer

About the role

NODA is a veteran-owned, venture-backed technology company transforming unmanned systems collaboration. Systems Software Engineers bridge software, networking, RF, and hardware to ensure systems work in complex, mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve cross-system issues spanning software, real-time messaging, networking, RF, and hardware
• Pinpoint performance and latency issues in cross-system infrastructure
• Write and maintain software stacks under a systems architect's supervision
• Investigate and characterize system behavior under degraded, intermittent, or contested link conditions
• Perform hands-on hardware diagnostics using basic bench tools
• Hold credible technical conversations with networking, RF, and hardware SMEs
• Contribute to System Health: performance baselining, system-level verification, crash analysis to root cause, and KPI/dashboard evidence
• Support integration tooling, CI/CD for cross-system components, and automated regression in SIL/HIL environments
• Maintain Interface Control Documents and integration contracts
• Identify and mitigate cross-system risks impacting mission effectiveness

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in C++ and/or Python
• Experience with real-time or low-latency messaging/middleware
• Solid working knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience with Linux systems and command-line debugging tooling
• Experience operating or debugging systems in contested/denied conditions
• Experience with containerization and observability tooling
• Experience with simulation, HIL/SIL pipelines, or sim-to-field validation workflows
• Experience with security considerations in tactical comms or cross-domain solutions
• Experience authoring ICDs, requirements traceability, or MBSE artifacts
• Exposure to tactical radios, MANET, or mesh networking

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance

Skills & Attributes

• Comfortable being the generalist in the room
• Ownership instinct; debugs to root cause
• Results-oriented; thinks in terms of measurable system KPIs
• Clear written communicator

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible PTO + federal holidays
• 401(k)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Free One Medical membership
• Growth Path at NODA

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Hybrid on-site, with travel (~20% typical; up to ~50% during field exercises and partner/military deployments)