Senior Software Engineer

6 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia DroneShield Full time $70,000 - $120,000 per year

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 one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia 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.

This role is in the DroneShield Sydney headquarters. There are approximately 320 staff based in the 4,000sqm facility today, scheduled to grow to approximately 400 staff by end of 2026. Overseas on the ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Denmark, Germany and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries globally.

*About the role*
DroneShield is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Sydney, NSW.

The position will report to VP of Embedded Systems and the primary focus of the role is to develop and maintain DroneShield's RFAI-ATK Disruptor Capability. Working closely with ML/AI, Data Science, RF and infrastructure teams to innovate and enhance DroneShield's world leading Anti-Drone technology.

It represents an exceptional opportunity for a result-driven individual in a new niche but exploding market.

*Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations*

  • Implement new software features from concept to delivery, for example gathering user requirement to diagnosing issues in production.
  • Interface with Front-End and API teams
  • Utilize leading industry practice to deliver and maintain robust and efficient APIs for seamless integration with external and internal systems.
  • Advance the development of software architecture design processes within the team. Ensure software is designed for reliability, and performance on resource constrained targets.
  • Bring a test-driven development mindset
  • Documentation of software architecture and processes
  • Work with the engineering team to ensure reliable and robust end to end system operation
  • Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on user and business requirements.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

*Qualifications, Experience and Skills*

  • BS degree in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electronic Engineer or similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
  • Minimum 5-7 years' experience in related roles. Roles could include:
    • Software Engineer
  • Linux Embedded Engineer
  • Software Architect
  • Knowledge of the following would also be essential:
    • Software development experience in Python
  • API design
  • Software architecture and design patterns (event loops, dependency injection, object-oriented principles)
  • Inter-device and inter-process communication using gRPC, REST, raw TCP/UDP, or other high performance messaging protocols.
  • Development tools including Git, Jira, Confluence, CICD
  • Knowledge of the following would also be desirable:
    • Comfortable on the command line in a Linux first environment
  • Software development experience in Golang, Modern C++
  • Software Architecture design
  • Microservice architecture
  • Hardware in the loop CICD design

Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed.

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