Staff Software Engineer, Discovery

Boston · Costa Mesa · Washington · Washington, DC (DC-01) · USD 220,000-292,000 · 10+ years experience · Posted Sep 25, 2026

At a glance

The Lattice for Cyber team is a founding group building core capabilities, experiences, and primitives to enable offensive cyber missions.
This role involves solving complex problems in networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics to ensure cyber products operate reliably at scale.
Engineers will work from a blank sheet of paper to deploy cyber capabilities in unconventional or difficult-to-reach environments.

Build highly-available and scalable services, data models, and APIs for offensive cyber products.
Integrate best-of-breed cyber tools and products into Lattice via custom SDKs or white-glove integrations.
Work directly with program teams and customers to support real missions.
Contribute to technical leadership, design clarity, and long-term maintainability of the software stack.
Design distributed software systems for operation across degraded, intermittent, and contested networks.
Incorporate AI/LLM-enabled workflow features to improve operator effectiveness.
Build SDKs and integrations to allow third-party vendors to incorporate tools into the Lattice Cyber platform.
Contribute to the Lattice software platform core to provide value across the company.

10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software.
Strong software engineering experience in C, C++, Python, Go, Rust, or modern TypeScript/React.
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 teams and translating ambiguous requirements into software interfaces.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Based in or willing to relocate to the Washington, DC or Orange County, CA metro areas.
Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
US security clearance eligible.

Hands-on offensive or defensive cyber background.
Exposure to AI/LLM integration patterns, inference workflows, tool orchestration, or model-assisted application features.
Front end experience in TypeScript and React.
Track record of technical leadership, productization work, or direct customer interface.
Prior work delivering into air-gapped or constrained deployment environments.
Active U.S. Security clearance.