Senior Ground Software Engineer

About Odin Dynamics

Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company founded in 2025 to build autonomous underwater vehicles that will define the next era of undersea warfare. The company is delivering capable, resilient autonomous systems that strengthen the strategic advantage of the United States and its allied navies.

 This is a greenfield program. The platform is being built from scratch. Engineers here will take incomplete requirements, early hardware, and difficult technical constraints and turn them into production-ready software systems that support real autonomous operations. Decisions are driven by physics, test data, and product outcomes — not inherited convention or documentation volume.

 

The Opportunity

Odin Dynamics is looking for a Senior Ground Software Engineer to own the complete ground software stack for their autonomous underwater vehicle platform. You will own the full lifecycle — requirements, architecture, system design, implementation, testing, validation, field support, and continued improvement after deployment.

This is a true full-stack role. You will build frontend and backend software for mission planning, operator workflows, vehicle supervision, telemetry handling and visualization, data review, post-mission analysis, and remote mission-control workflows. The software you build will be used with real autonomous systems, real field data, constrained communications, and difficult operating environments. You will work closely with Autonomy Software, Embedded Software, Avionics, Test Engineering, and Operations to integrate cleanly across the stack.

 This is not a generic web application role. It is not a narrow backend or UI role. The work crosses every boundary — frontend, backend, data systems, autonomy, embedded software, test engineering, and field operations — and there are no organizational handoffs when a hard problem appears at one of them.

 

What You’ll Do

• •      Serve as the Responsible Engineer for the ground software stack, owning it end-to-end
• •      Build frontend and backend software for mission planning, operator workflows, vehicle supervision, telemetry visualization, data review, post-mission analysis, and remote mission-control workflows
• •      Design and implement operator-facing interfaces that help users plan missions, understand vehicle state, inspect telemetry, review data, and make effective decisions
• •      Build backend services, APIs, data models, and application logic to support development, test, field operations, and production use
• •      Develop telemetry ingestion, validation, normalization, storage, visualization, alerting, replay, and analysis capabilities
• •      Design data storage and handling for high-volume telemetry, logs, mission data, analysis results, and time-series data
• •      Build map-based and geospatial workflows for planning, route visualization, constraints, review, and operational awareness
• •      Develop tools for engineering analysis, log inspection, anomaly investigation, mission replay, system debugging, and failure analysis
• •      Build software that supports connected and disconnected use, intermittent or constrained communications, and on-premises or cloud-hosted deployment
• •      Build automated development workflows using modern build systems, CI/CD, static analysis, profiling, and automated testing
• •      Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical reviews while remaining hands-on
• •      Support field testing and sea trials when required; work directly with operators during tests

 

You Should Have

• •      Deep practical experience developing full-stack production software across both frontend and backend systems
• •      Strong frontend product-development experience building usable, reliable, operator-facing or customer-facing software
• •      Strong backend and API-development experience for production applications, data systems, or operational software
• •      Experience building telemetry pipelines, data-ingestion systems, data-processing workflows, time-series data systems, or comparable systems handling real-world operational data
• •      Strong proficiency with modern frontend and backend web technologies and a modern data-storage layer
• •      Experience designing software for constrained, intermittent, or low-bandwidth communications environments
• •      Experience validating production software through unit testing, integration testing, system testing, simulation, replay, SIL, or HITL
• •      Demonstrated ability to work from first principles and reason about usability, data integrity, failure modes, and operational risk
• •      U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• •      Approximately 5+ years of relevant full-stack, ground software, data systems, telemetry, or production software experience preferred, though demonstrated technical depth and a record of delivering difficult systems matter more than years

 

Nice to Have

• •      Experience with mission planning, ground software, mission-control software, operator tools, telemetry systems, or command-and-control software for complex technical products
• •      Background in autonomous vehicles, unmanned systems, underwater systems, UAVs, robotics, aerospace, maritime, or defense systems
• •      Experience building product-quality interfaces for operators, engineers, or analysts in high-consequence environments
• •      Experience developing map-based, geospatial, routing, planning, or operational-awareness workflows
• •      Experience working closely with autonomy, embedded software, electrical, mechanical, test, and operations teams on tightly integrated electromechanical systems

 

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary: $130,000 - $180,000, depending on experience, plus equity and commission.