{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e718ce3fc2f6e6bb747d63b5","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e718ce3fc2f6e6bb747d63b5","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e718ce3fc2f6e6bb747d63b5","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure","description":"Who is Recruiting from Scratch :\nRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.\nhttps://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/\nCompany background\nOur client is a low-cost, swarm robotics company for industry and defense. They see a world of ubiquitous low-cost robots transforming almost all aspects of society, but we see an urgent need in the defense industry. They focus on building swarms of robots that incorporate a low-cost BOM, an autonomous stack optimized for off the shelf components, and a global planner that enables swarm capabilities for groups of robots to accomplish sophisticated tasks.\nTheir first product is a defense application building Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), collectively termed - Attritable, Networked, Tactical Swarm (ANTS).\nThe Founders have decades of experience in self-driving cars and trucks, humanoids, and UAVs with experience from NASA, JPL, Cruise, Embark, McKinsey, Amazon, and the CIA.\n\nJob description\nOur client is on the forefront of deploying unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) swarms for defense applications and is seeking a highly skilled Software Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the software infrastructure that supports our unmanned ground vehicles. The ideal candidate will specialize in ROS2, network architecture, configuration management, performance, software deployment, and will develop the “plumbing” to ensure efficient, reliable operation of large-scale robotic swarms controlled by multiple end-users. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to build a modern robotics stack from the ground up\nRequired qualifications\nROS2 Development: Experience architecting and implementing robust ROS2 nodes to facilitate communication between core robot subsystems\nNetwork Engineering: Experience designing and implementing network architectures suitable for scaling large robotic swarms, as well as experience designing and optimizing on-bot networks topologies to support multiple control interfaces and data streams.\nConfiguration Management: Experience using tools such as Docker and Ansible for effective robot configuration management, ensuring consistent environments across development, testing, and production stages.\nFault Management: Experience designing and implementing real-time fault detection and management, enhancing system reliability and performance under various operational conditions.\nLogging and Monitoring: Experience implementing comprehensive logging systems to record system performance and critical events, as well as monitoring tools to proactively address potential issues.\nDeployment and Maintenance: Experience with processes and tooling for software deployment and product updates.\nComfortable working in the high-paced, fluid environment of a tech startup\nExcited to contribute to the defense of the United States and its allies\nAble to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance\nAbility to work onsite in Phoenix, AZ are\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience with unmanned ground vehicles or robotic swarms.\nExperience developing within the ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit) ecosystem.\nStrong background in Linux administration and Linux scripting languages\nFamiliarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.\nProven track record of managing software deployments in a robotic context.\nCompensation:\nCompetitive salary: $100,000 - $130,000\nEquity grant\nFull health benefits","company":"Recruiting from Scratch","rawCompany":"recruiting from scratch","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-12T20:29:39.628Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure","description":"Who is Recruiting from Scratch :\nRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.\nhttps://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/\nCompany background\nOur client is a low-cost, swarm robotics company for industry and defense. They see a world of ubiquitous low-cost robots transforming almost all aspects of society, but we see an urgent need in the defense industry. 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The ideal candidate will specialize in ROS2, network architecture, configuration management, performance, software deployment, and will develop the “plumbing” to ensure efficient, reliable operation of large-scale robotic swarms controlled by multiple end-users. 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