Swarm Aero
Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms for defense and missions.
Swarm Aero is pioneering the future of air power by building the largest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms and the most versatile aircraft network in the world. We craft sophisticated aircraft hardware and "Legion" Command & Control software that enables thousands of drones to operate as a single, intelligent network. Our systems use onboard computing, advanced sensors, and artificial intelligence for autonomous flight and collective decision-making. We serve U.S. government and military customers, developing platforms for intelligence gathering, cargo delivery, and disaster response, ensuring operational success in challenging, communication-limited environments. Backed by a $35M Series A, we are rapidly expanding our team and capabilities. Our team thrives on innovation and collaboration, with many engineering roles offering remote flexibility while maintaining a strong connection to our mission. You will join a group of world-class engineers and operators, many of whom have built and exited multiple startups and designed 30+ novel aircraft. We empower team members to take ownership, solving genuinely hard problems with a direct impact on national security. We cultivate an environment where rapid iteration and seeing your code deployed in high-stakes, real-world scenarios are the norm, adapting quickly to operational demands without sacrificing rigor. Engineering at Swarm Aero presents an unparalleled technical challenge: orchestrating thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets in real-time. Our backend engineers architect the C2 system, building distributed, collaborative infrastructure for controlling large aircraft numbers simultaneously, even with intermittent communications. Frontend engineers craft intuitive interfaces, visualizing dense telemetry and sensor data with technologies like React, WebGL, and OpenGL. We emphasize strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps, allowing us to ship early and often. You will contribute to solutions pushing the boundaries of AI, machine learning, and robust networking (IPv6, UDP/TCP). If you are an impatient optimist, a maker at heart, and want to see your code run in environments most engineers never touch, you will thrive here. We seek individuals comfortable being the most technical person in a dynamic, unpredictable field, adapting to shifting demands while maintaining precision. This is a unique opportunity to shape how humans command autonomous systems at scale, with your fingerprints on the architecture of a technology that will redefine global capabilities.