Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world's most challenging technical problems in the Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems. Working with high profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.
With an approximately $1bn market capitalisation and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.
About the role
DroneShield is seeking a Software Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Warrenton, Virginia.
The position will report to the Director of Engineering and be a key member of the software development team. This role requires good initiative and offers the opportunity to own your area of responsibility with a tangible impact on our customers. Candidates interested in collaborating with adjacent technical disciplines will excel in this position.
Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations
- Design, develop and deploy scripts and services to integrate highly technical sensors into web-based Command and Control (C2) platform
- Translate complex business requirements into software solutions that offer high availability, reliability, and performance
- Work with partner and customer organizations to present, design and optimize distributed systems to meet their expectations
- Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary engineers in the USA and Australia
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team
- Maintain and build upon existing test infrastructure
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- 3 to 6 years of software development experience in Go (Golang) or C++
- Experience with gRPC or protobuf format is required
- Experience with sensor integration and distributed 'IoT like' systems is required
- Strong networking and scripting experience is required
- Experience with Unix/Linux environments, developing large software systems, microservice infrastructure and/or security software development is ideal
- Previous Defense industry experience is highly favorable
- Experience with C# or Java is a plus
- Comfortable working with customers and partners to communicate solutions to complex problems
- Previous 'start-up' or 'scale-up' experience is favorable
Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.