Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Discovery
Boston · Costa Mesa · Washington · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-12) · Washington, DC (DC-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Boston · Costa Mesa · Washington · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-12) · Washington, DC (DC-01)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary
About the role
- As a Software Engineer in Lattice for Cyber, you will build the core capabilities, experiences, and primitives that our offensive Cyber programs rely on.
- This is a founding team working from an unusually blank sheet of paper to solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more.
Responsibilities
- Work with design teams and cyber subject matter experts to build a brand new UX product that enables US and allied nations to perform offensive cyber missions at scale.
- Design and build an extensible React-based component system as a foundation for other cyber teams to build upon for their customer’s use cases and integrations.
- Build the UX that powers our offensive cyber products such as command and control, autonomous cyber behavior trees, SIGINT analysis tools, and data exfiltration pipelines.
- Work directly with program teams and customers as they build real missions on your products.
- Contribute to technical leadership, design clarity, and long-term maintainability across a growing software stack.
- Incorporate AI/LLM-enabled workflow features where they improve analyst or operator effectiveness without compromising system reliability.
- Contribute back to the Lattice software platform core, allowing your products to provide value across the entire company.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software.
- Strong front-end engineering experience in modern TypeScript/React application development, Angular, Vue.js or similar tools.
- Ability to debug across the full stack, including logs, networking, interfaces, configuration, and hardware/software boundaries.
- Practical experience with Linux and containerized deployment.
- Comfort collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and translating ambiguous requirements into clean user experiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical reviews and architecture discussions.
- Based in, or willing to relocate to, the Washington, DC or the Orange County, CA metro areas.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time support program teams and customer events.
- US security clearance eligible
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to AI/LLM integration patterns, inference workflows, tool orchestration, or model-assisted application features.
- Track record of technical leadership, productization work, or direct customer interface in complex engineering environments.
- Prior work delivering into air-gapped or otherwise constrained deployment environments.
- Hands-on offensive or defensive cyber background.
- An active U.S. Security clearance.
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 supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Workplace
- Based in, or willing to relocate to, the Washington, DC or the Orange County, CA metro areas.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time support program teams and customer events.
Skills
- TypeScript
- React
- Angular
- Vue.js
- Linux
- AI
- LLM
