True Talent Solutions Partners

Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

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

Open. First seen 1 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a customer-facing product engineering team building cloud and edge software for command and control of autonomous systems. Your work will connect sensors, robotic platforms, and AI-assisted decision-making to support demanding operational missions.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and optimize backend and service-layer software for mission-critical autonomous systems.
  • Develop real-time data processing for heterogeneous sensors, including state estimation and threat detection.
  • Build LLM- and AI-enabled systems that assess situations and support timely operational decisions.
  • Integrate sensors, effectors, and autonomous platforms, including individual vehicles and coordinated groups.
  • Engineer scalable, reliable, and fail-safe services 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 owning core backend services such as microservices, APIs, or middleware, and building real-time messaging between live external services.
  • Proficiency in Rust, Python, C++, or Java, plus a degree in computer science or a related technical field.
  • Professional experience in autonomy, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, or factory automation. Experience should include shipped software beyond algorithms, simulation, or ML research alone.
  • Experience delivering software in a fast-moving prototype-to-field environment. Familiarity with LLM integrations, AI agents, or toolchains is useful.
  • US work authorization, US citizenship, and eligibility to obtain a security clearance are required. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

Hybrid role based in Palo Alto, California.

What this role asks for

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

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The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 129 open in Client Roles. 129 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (71 of 129), LLM (45 of 129), TypeScript (42 of 129), React (37 of 129), AWS (29 of 129), Machine Learning (28 of 129), JavaScript (26 of 129)

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