Forward Deployed Software Engineer
📍 Hybrid working in either Seattle | Palo Alto | Washington DC | New York City | Denver
💰 $135,000 to $200,000 + RSUs
✈️ 25% to 75% travel
🇺🇸 US Security Clearance eligibility required
We're working with a leading US technology company hiring a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to join a newly formed team building advanced Command and Control software for autonomous systems.
This is a front-end-heavy engineering role working at the intersection of React, real-time data, AI and autonomous systems.
You'll build software that brings together sensors, autonomous vehicles, AI-driven decision-making systems and mission-critical data into interfaces used in real-world operational environments.
What you'll be doing
- Build complex user-facing applications using React and TypeScript
- Develop Command and Control interfaces for autonomous systems
- Build interfaces that visualise live and streaming data
- Integrate with sensors, AI systems, APIs and robotic platforms
- Deploy software across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments
- Work alongside specialists across AI, robotics, sensing and systems engineering
- Solve integration challenges involving APIs, networking, security and authentication
- Own problems from development through integration and real-world deployment
What we're looking for
- 2 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong React, TypeScript and JavaScript experience
- Clear front-end engineering experience and a desire to remain hands-on
- Experience building and maintaining production applications
- Strong API and systems integration skills
- Experience with CI/CD and software deployment
- Comfortable working with Linux
- Strong problem-solving skills in technically complex environments
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience
- Genuine interest in defence-related technology
- Eligible and willing to obtain a US Security Clearance
- Comfortable travelling 25% to 75%
Particularly interesting experience
- Three.js or other 3D JavaScript frameworks
- WebSockets and real-time data
- Complex data visualisation
- Mapping or geospatial applications
- Robotics or autonomous systems
- Defence or aerospace technology
- Sensors, telemetry or IoT
- Docker and Kubernetes
Why consider it?
This isn't a conventional front-end role.
You'll be building software that connects the digital and physical worlds using real-time data, autonomous systems and AI with the opportunity to see your work deployed into genuine operational environments.
For a strong React/TypeScript engineer who wants to work on technically difficult software with tangible real-world impact this is an opportunity worth exploring.
