True Talent Solutions Partners

Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems (C2/Backend/Service)

Palo Alto
Salary
$145,000 - $275,000 annually
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · Palo Alto
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 5 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a customer-facing product engineering team building command-and-control and autonomy software for robotic and autonomous systems. You will develop cloud and edge services that connect sensors, platforms, and AI-enabled decision-making for operational missions.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and optimize software for mission-critical autonomous systems.
  • Develop services that process data from diverse sensors for real-time state estimation and threat detection.
  • Build AI- and LLM-enabled systems that assess situations and support rapid operational decisions.
  • Integrate sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms, including systems operating individually or in groups.
  • Engineer reliable, scalable, and fail-safe software for high-stakes environments.
  • Work with robotics, hardware, sensing, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.

What We're Looking For

  • Four to ten years of backend or service-layer software engineering experience, with recent hands-on individual contributor work.
  • Experience building and owning backend services such as APIs, microservices, or middleware, and real-time data or messaging integrations across live services.
  • Proficiency in one or more of Rust, Python, C++, or Java, and a degree in computer science or a related technical field.
  • Practical experience in autonomy, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, or factory automation, beyond algorithm, simulation, or ML research alone.
  • Experience shipping software in a fast-paced, prototype-to-field environment.
  • Experience integrating LLM systems or AI agents and building toolchains is helpful.
  • US work authorization without sponsorship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance are required.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $145,000 to $275,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid in Palo Alto, California.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

C++ · Microservices · Rust

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 124 open postings.

Standard for backend roles

Java · Python

Common in backend postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (66 of 125), LLM (50 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), React (39 of 125), Machine Learning (30 of 125), JavaScript (28 of 125), AWS (25 of 125)

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