Senior Mission Software Engineer
Waltham · Lexington, MA (LEX-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 25, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Waltham · Lexington, MA (LEX-01)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary
About the role
- We're looking for a Mission Software Engineer to join the Imaging Interfaces team.
- You will spend meaningful time keeping fielded systems alive, triaging issues across the full stack, and serving as a technical representative for our products in integrations with external teams and customers.
Responsibilities
- Own fielded system success, maintaining the health and uptime of deployed imaging systems.
- Build and maintain production services that run on edge-compute devices in austere environments.
- Support field operations by working directly with field operators and non-technical users to diagnose and resolve issues.
- Represent the team externally as a subject matter expert in integrations with other products and teams.
- Maintain end-to-end system understanding across hardware, firmware, networking, and software.
- Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality alongside firmware, hardware, and platform engineers.
- Travel approximately 15% of the time for field testing and customer integrations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software development with meaningful production responsibility
- Strong Python and C++ skills
- 5+ years working in Linux-based environments, including bare-metal hardware
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues across system boundaries without always having full visibility into every component
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical problems clearly to non-technical audiences
- Willingness to travel approximately 15% of the time for field testing and customer integrations
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks
- Familiarity with systems service management and observability practices on Linux
- React/JSX experience
- Familiarity with Nix or NixOS
- Experience supporting fielded or deployed systems, not just development environments
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Workplace
- Travel expected approximately 15% of the time for field testing and customer integrations.
Skills
- Python
- C++
- Linux
- gRPC
- React
- JSX
- Nix
- NixOS
