The Consumer Platforms - Web & Backend team owns the core web experience for www.roblox.com and the backend services that power Roblox’s consumer apps across mobile, console, desktop, and web. The team provides the foundational architecture, frameworks, and services that other product teams build on, ensuring Roblox is fast, reliable, and delightful for all our users.

As a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer on this team, you’ll work across both the web platform and its backend, shaping the experience where millions of people first discover and return to Roblox. You will balance platform excellence with direct product impact - you will architect and ship end-to-end product features that define how millions of users interact with our ecosystem daily.

You will:

• Drive the full product lifecycle in close collaboration with product and design teams, transforming complex requirements into high-performance, polished features
• Lead systematic improvements to our UI development processes and architecture.
• Architect, build, and maintain our design system and component library in collaboration with cross-functional teams, while innovating associated developer tooling to ensure consistency, scalability, and boosting team productivity.
• Champion best practices for writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in frontend & backend development, component-based frameworks, and UI/UX to drive continuous improvement.

You have:

• 4+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, with a proven track record of building and shipping production-level applications.
• Expertise in modern frontend technologies and component-based UI frameworks like React.
• Expertise in an Object-Oriented Programming language (e.g., C#, Java, C++).
• Solid experience with backend development, including designing APIs, working with microservices and databases, and building scalable server-side logic using languages such as Node.js
• A deep understanding of the entire application lifecycle, from architecture and design to deployment and maintenance.
• A strong design sensibility and a commitment to creating highly accessible and visually polished user interfaces.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead discussions and work effectively with product, design, and other engineering teams.
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: NextJS, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, C++, Lua, contributing to or managing a design system.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

This position is for temporary engagement through our staffing partner, Yoh Enterprise Solutions.  Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States for this position.

This is a hybrid / onsite position.  

For nearly 40 years, Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games that constantly push the boundaries of narrative, gameplay, and technology. Naughty Dog recently released The Last of Us Part II Remastered as well as a current generation remake of The Last of Us Part I for the PS5. We're also proud to say that The Last of Us Part I is now available for the first time on PC. Currently, we’re busy at the kennel working on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered for PC and we'd love to find talented individuals to join us.

Naughty Dog games have long been lauded for their evocative, character-driven stories and attention to detail. We are committed to innovation within our games and as such have curated some of the top creative and technically innovative minds in the industry. We welcome diverse candidates and believe that a broad range of cultural and life experiences contribute to the overall well-being and success of the studio and the titles we craft together.

In this role you’ll be responsible for prototyping gameplay using our in-house tools and scripting language, which could range from combat encounters to narrative sequences to player mechanics and enemy behaviors. Then working across departments to bring your prototypes into production and polish your work to the high level of quality Naughty Dog is known for.  We’re looking for self-motivated, proactive designers who enjoy creating unique experiences and can combine their technical and creative skills while iterating rapidly.

 What you will do 

• Prototyping, implementing, and owning gameplay scenarios, narrative sequences, interactive objects, and AI behaviors
• Collaborating with the Design team to conceptualize, prototype, implement, tune, and balance gameplay mechanics and systems
• Communicating with animation, programming, and art departments to effectively produce the assets and code support required for the areas you’re owning
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

 What skills will you use

• Significant programming ability (Computer Science undergraduate degree preferred)
• Knowledge of 3D math
• Experience with C++, C#, Lua, or other scripting language
• Broad understanding of gaming landscape
• Self-starter with excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, brainstorm, iterate and come up with fun and creative solutions
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

 Bonus Skills

• Experience developing third-person action games
• Experience with 3D level editors
• Understanding of narrative principles, and conveying emotion through gameplay
• Experience with the following areas of design
• Behavior Trees
• Melee
• Combat Systems
• Character animation
• Enemy & boss design

As part of the Naughty Dog application process, candidates should expect to be given a technical interview

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As a Technical Developer Connections Manager on the Developer Connections team, you’ll play a critical role in supporting and scaling Roblox’s creator ecosystem. You’ll act as a trusted technical partner to high-impact creators across strategic genres (RPG, FPS, Sports), supporting their growth, technical execution, and long-term success on the platform. You’ll support priority escalations and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams during platform incidents, while also designing internal tools and automation to improve operational efficiency and support quality.

With deep expertise in Roblox Studio, performance optimization, and live-operations troubleshooting, you’ll help creators build stable, high-performing experiences while strengthening long-term relationships across the platform.

You will:

• Serve as a technical point of contact for creators, providing hands-on support, guidance, and best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, stability, and scalability issues in live games and experiences.
• Own and manage high-priority creator escalations, including participation in an on-call rotation covering weekends and holidays (with flexible scheduling and compensatory time off).
  Partner with product and engineering teams to coordinate real-time responses to platform incidents and creator-impacting issues.
• Act as a communication bridge between creators and internal teams, ensuring clarity, transparency, and timely updates.
• Build internal tools and workflow automations (e.g., using Python) to improve response times, data visibility, and team efficiency.

You have:

• 5+ years of experience in game development or interactive experience development.
• A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience building on Roblox and/or comparable creator platforms.
• Deep understanding of the Roblox platform, Roblox Studio, and the creator ecosystem.
• Strong expertise in performance optimization, debugging, and profiling for live games or experiences.
• Proficiency in Lua, including scripting for tooling, automation, or diagnostics; familiarity with Python, C#, and .NET is a plus.
• Experience with Roblox Studio workflows, tools, and production pipelines.
• The ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• A creator-first mindset, demonstrating empathy, patience, and professionalism in high-pressure situations.
• A proactive, self-directed approach, with strong ownership over work and personal workflow management.

As a Principal Software Engineer for Engine UI on Roblox, you will work on our state-of-the-art game engine, building out User Interface capability across all of Roblox. This position enables our game developers to unlock, accelerate, and promote the creation of high quality, performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction.

You will:

• Develop and maintain our C++ engine code that powers the foundational UI features in the world’s most popular games, as well as the Roblox App and Roblox Studio
• Author and review API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau, our fast, Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated creation
• Partner closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision, address concerns, and resolve bugs
• Innovate upon our text rendering and layout pipelines used by Roblox Developers and Players millions of times a day, interacting with our localization systems to provide engaging experiences worldwide
• Enhance and define layout schemes that dynamically adapt UI from mobile to 8k monitors, and even to VR
• Profile and write performant C++ code, creating scalable systems that drive feature-rich experiences, delivering high-quality, snappy UI across high end and low end devices
• Have fun learning what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while contributing to industry leading technologies

You have:

• 8+ years of professional development experience in C++ or related languages
• A performance-oriented mindset, being familiar with profilers (such as VTune, μProf, etc.), locating performance bottlenecks, and using data to measure the impact of your changes
• Previously worked in areas like browser/layout engines, game engines or other UI framework development systems. Examples: WebKit, Chromium, Blink, Gecko, Unreal, Unity, UIKit, Android UI Framework, Qt, Yoga, React, FreeType, HarfBuzz, or your own UI framework project! (Preferred)
• Written systems that can be intuitively understood by developers of varying disciplines, such as engineers, game designers, and UI designers
• Familiarity with systems level 3D math, pointers, templates and memory management
• Some familiarity with graphics concepts and APIs such as Vulkan, Metal, and/or DirectX
• Worked on a variety of platforms like gaming consoles and/or mobile devices. (Preferred)

Roblox's Cache team is building a next-generation caching solution designed to deliver sub-millisecond average latency, horizontal scalability, and high efficiency—all at a drastically lower cost. Our ultimate vision is to shape a caching infrastructure capable of supporting 1 billion Daily Active Users while reducing costs by 90%. We are turning hours of onboarding and capacity expansion into seconds, freeing service owners entirely from managing cluster lifecycles.

As a Principal Engineer on the Cache team (part of the Infra Storage org), you will innovate and operate large-scale, in-house distributed systems to solve Roblox's ever-growing caching challenges. You will report directly to the Engineering Manager for the Cache team.

(Check out our recent engineering blog post here to learn more about the team's latest work!)

You will:

• Lead the architectural transition to a next-generation, multitenant caching service built on ValKey, ensuring strict data, resource, and failure isolation for all tenants.
• Drive systemic optimizations to mitigate head-of-line blocking, manage hot keys, and maximize CPU and memory utilization across physical machine clusters.
• Design and build robust frameworks to automate development, chaos testing (fault/latency injection), and monitoring for 24x7 mission-critical services, targeting 99.99%+ availability and elastic scalability.
• Champion engineering best practices by leading design reviews, performance benchmarking, failure drills, and blameless post-incident retrospectives.
• Mentor and empower engineers, fostering a culture of deep domain expertise and seamless knowledge sharing across the Storage, Platform, and Product teams.

You have:

• Experience & Education: A BS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience) with at least 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep domain knowledge in building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Infrastructure Chops: A strong builder mindset with proven experience running Active/Active distributed systems on container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad.
• Programming Proficiency: Strong, hands-on programming experience in Go and C++.
• Problem-Solving Track Record: Proven success in resolving massive-scale bottlenecks, such as overcoming the limitations of decentralized Gossip protocols or mitigating partial failures in distributed systems.
• Observability Skills: Hands-on experience with modern telemetry and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Kibana).
• [Bonus] Open Source Contributions: A track record of contributing to or maintaining major open-source caching projects such as Redis, ValKey, or Memcached.
• [Bonus] Advanced Cache Internals: Experience extending cache functionality (e.g., writing custom Redis modules in C/Rust, complex Lua scripting) or deep-tuning underlying memory allocators like jemalloc.
• [Bonus] Caching Proxies & Topologies: Experience with caching proxies (e.g., Twemproxy, Envoy Redis filter) and designing complex, multi-tiered caching architectures.

We are seeking a passionate and skilled QA Engineer to join our QA team. In this role, you will focus on automating testing processes while collaborating closely with various engineering teams to enhance the quality of our gaming platform. You will play a crucial role in the development and implementation of automated testing strategies, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality.

You Will

• Automation Development: Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for new and existing features using Python, Lua, and C++.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Define and implement required test services and components for CI/CD pipelines.
• Testing Tools: Utilize tools like TestRail for test case management, Jira for bug tracking, Confluence for documentation, and Figma for QA workflows.
• Test Planning: Create and maintain quality test plans and test cases, ensuring thorough coverage across multiple gaming platforms (PC/Mac, iOS/Android, consoles, VR).
• Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams (Avatar, Audio, Video, etc.) to provide specialized QA support and drive QA initiatives from planning through to final release.
• Coordination: Work with internal QA teams and offshore members to coordinate testing efforts and streamline communication.
• Identify Automation Opportunities: Recognize areas for automation within manual test cases and convert them into efficient automated tests.
• Documentation: Review and create comprehensive documentation for test cases, results, and automation frameworks.

You Have

• Experience: 3-5 years of hands-on QA engineering experience, specifically in writing test plans, test suites, and test cases within the gaming industry.
• Coding Skills: Experience with Python (or equivalent) is required and understanding of Lua is a plus.
• Automation Frameworks: Experience with automation frameworks and a desire to grow in this area.
• Automation Focus: A strong emphasis on automation (60-70% of responsibilities) with a desire to advance automation skills.
• Passion for Gaming: A deep interest in gaming and game development, with a solid understanding of gaming platforms.
• Game Engines: Experience with game engines such as Unity, Unreal or Roblox Studio is required.
• Team Coordination: Proven experience working with offshore QA teams, enhancing collaboration and communication.

You Are

• Roblox Development: Familiar with Roblox development processes is a plus.

As a Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, you’ll be an individual contributor focused on evolving the systems and processes which power Roblox’s design organization through scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for building the orchestration layers and internal tools that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively.

You have experience at the intersection of systems engineering and design tooling. You understand design systems, but your superpower is building the backend services, APIs, and data models that allow those systems to scale. Your work will help ensure our design tools, AI agents, and prototypes not only inspire—but deploy seamlessly into production environments.

You will:

• Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect our design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio).
• Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers (such as Model Context Protocol servers) to enable natural language generation of UI components, layouts, and prototypes.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure to abstract away complex DevOps workflows, creating "zero-config" development environments for non-technical designers.
• Design and maintain the data architecture that connects our design system to our AI data sources, ensuring design tokens and components are programmatically accessible and synced across multiple platforms.
• Create internal tools, develop plugins for tools like Figma and Cursor, and build web apps focused on design linting, code generation, and automated compliance at scale.
• Serve as the deeply technical bridge between core engineering, AI research, and product design, ensuring our design acceleration tools are secure, performant, and structurally sound.
• You will report to the Manager of Design Acceleration.

You have:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on full-stack or backend development, systems architecture, and API design.
• Demonstrated experience building scalable internal services, not just frontend interfaces.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and AI protocols (e.g., MCP).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, feature-flag management, version control (GitHub Enterprise), and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Figma plugin architecture and how to programmatically parse and manipulate design data at scale.
• (Nice to have) Experience with Roblox development, Lua/React-Lua, or game-engine UI architecture.
• (Nice to have) Experience with ASTs (Abstract Syntax Trees), compiler logic, or automated code generation.

At Roblox, we're on a mission to empower creators to build and share immersive experiences. As a member of the Roblox Studio team, you’ll be working on the most popular tool for game development in the world. Our Studio team is seeking an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer to push the boundaries of AI-assisted game development.

You'll improve the capabilities of Roblox Assistant and Code Assist, crafting the future of how games are built on our platform. Your work will directly impact millions of creators and players worldwide.

You Will:

• Advance Roblox Assistant's Reasoning: Pioneer innovative ways to improve our AI's ability to handle complex prompts. This may involve architecting novel models or fine-tuning innovative language models on diverse, large-scale datasets.
• Specialize LLMs for Roblox: Lead efforts to fine-tune large language models on Roblox's unique data model, tailoring innovative AI to our specific ecosystem. Your work will bridge the gap between general-purpose LLMs and the niche needs of interactive content development.
• Elevate Scripting Quality: Innovate on our Lua code data pipeline, developing sophisticated quality signals to ensure premier script generation.

You Have:

• Deep expertise in PyTorch or equivalent ML frameworks.
• Proficiency with distributed data processing systems like PySpark.
• Proven track record of deploying ML systems to production at scale.
• Strong understanding of transformer architectures and their applications.
• 3+ years of experience building ML systems / applications.
• A passion for game development, with extra points for Roblox Lua scripting experience.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be embedded within the AVC team and will be part of the centralized Engine QA organization within Engineering Productivity at Roblox. This team is responsible for ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of Roblox’s real-time Audio, Video, and Communication systems that power voice chat, video streaming, spatial audio, and live interactions across platforms.

You’ll partner closely with engineers, release teams, and automation framework owners to validate low-latency, real-time systems that operate at massive global scale. Your work directly impacts how millions of players and creators communicate in real time ensuring clarity, synchronization, performance, and stability across desktop, mobile, console, and VR.

You Will:

• Define and execute test plans for AVC features (voice, video, audio pipelines, streaming).
• Validate performance, latency, and stability across platforms and network conditions.
• Integrate AVC automated tests into CI/CD systems.
• Partner with engineers to analyze performance telemetry and debug complex issues.
• Lead release readiness testing for AVC components.
• Participate in on-call rotation for emergency validation.

You Have:

• 8+ years of QA experience in real-time systems, media, networking, or game engines.
• Strong understanding of audio/video streaming concepts and performance constraints.
• Experience testing voice or video chat systems both hardware and software (eg. video conference)
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent debugging skills for timing, performance, and cross-platform issues.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, or Lua.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be embedded within the AVC team and will be part of the centralized Engine QA organization within Engineering Productivity at Roblox. This team is responsible for ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of Roblox’s real-time Audio, Video, and Communication systems that power voice chat, video streaming, spatial audio, and live interactions across platforms.

You’ll partner closely with engineers, release teams, and automation framework owners to validate low-latency, real-time systems that operate at massive global scale. Your work directly impacts how millions of players and creators communicate in real time ensuring clarity, synchronization, performance, and stability across desktop, mobile, console, and VR.

You Will:

• Define and execute test plans for AVC features (voice, video, audio pipelines, streaming).
• Validate performance, latency, and stability across platforms and network conditions.
• Integrate AVC automated tests into CI/CD systems.
• Partner with engineers to analyze performance telemetry and debug complex issues.
• Lead release readiness testing for AVC components.
• Participate in on-call rotation for emergency validation.

You Have:

• 8+ years of QA experience in real-time systems, media, networking, or game engines.
• Strong understanding of audio/video streaming concepts and performance constraints.
• Experience testing voice or video chat systems both hardware and software (eg. video conference)
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent debugging skills for timing, performance, and cross-platform issues.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, or Lua.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

As a Senior QA Engineer for Interactivity, you will be the quality leader for the core systems that define how users interact with our 3D experiences. You will be responsible for defining the validation strategy, architecting automation, and ensuring system stability across all platforms, from mobile and console to VR and web. This role involves deep collaboration with engineering to influence product design and provides leadership to our global QA teams. You will report to the Senior Manager of Quality Assurance. 

You will:

• Define, own, and sign off on the complete validation strategy for real-time interaction systems, input handling, and complex UI, setting key metrics and determining release readiness.
• Architect and implement high-level automation solutions for mission-critical end-to-end interaction flows, driving the evolution of the testing framework for scalability and reliability.
• Lead and direct cross-platform validation efforts (mobile, console, desktop, VR, Web, TV), independently resolving systemic defects.
• Consult with engineering on design implications and technical solutions, applying your insights to influence the development of interactivity features and shared automation tools (Arrow, Apollo, UTP).
• Lead offshore members, scaling test strategy, scripting practices, and automation quality across the organization while establishing the standards for all test documentation.

You have:

• 5+ years of specialized expertise in QA for game engines or real-time interaction systems.
• Advanced knowledge of real-time interaction systems, complex input handling, and strategic automation architecture.
• Experience with other scripting languages such as Lua (or Luau) and Python for sophisticated systems automation. Proficiency in C++ is a plus.
• Experience managing CI/CD test pipelines.
• A proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence outcomes in fast-paced engineering environments.
• Expertise in tools QA, simulation testing for creator platforms, or specialized knowledge of platform-specific input handling.

You are:

• A data-driven professional with strong cross-platform expertise and technical collaboration skills.
• A continuous learner, passionate about experimenting with new automation and interactivity testing techniques to drive quality innovation.

As a Senior QA Engineer for Interactivity, you will be the quality leader for the core systems that define how users interact with our 3D experiences. You will be responsible for defining the validation strategy, architecting automation, and ensuring system stability across all platforms, from mobile and console to VR and web. This role involves deep collaboration with engineering to influence product design and provides leadership to our global QA teams. You will report to the Senior Manager of Quality Assurance. 

You will:

• Define, own, and sign off on the complete validation strategy for real-time interaction systems, input handling, and complex UI, setting key metrics and determining release readiness.
• Architect and implement high-level automation solutions for mission-critical end-to-end interaction flows, driving the evolution of the testing framework for scalability and reliability.
• Lead and direct cross-platform validation efforts (mobile, console, desktop, VR, Web, TV), independently resolving systemic defects.
• Consult with engineering on design implications and technical solutions, applying your insights to influence the development of interactivity features and shared automation tools (Arrow, Apollo, UTP).
• Lead offshore members, scaling test strategy, scripting practices, and automation quality across the organization while establishing the standards for all test documentation.

You have:

• 5+ years of specialized expertise in QA for game engines or real-time interaction systems.
• Advanced knowledge of real-time interaction systems, complex input handling, and strategic automation architecture.
• Experience with other scripting languages such as Lua (or Luau) and Python for sophisticated systems automation. Proficiency in C++ is a plus.
• Experience managing CI/CD test pipelines.
• A proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence outcomes in fast-paced engineering environments.
• Expertise in tools QA, simulation testing for creator platforms, or specialized knowledge of platform-specific input handling.

You are:

• A data-driven professional with strong cross-platform expertise and technical collaboration skills.
• A continuous learner, passionate about experimenting with new automation and interactivity testing techniques to drive quality innovation.

The Consumer App Foundation team works on core software components and solutions to make Roblox client applications more responsive, stable, and resource efficient on all supported platforms - mobile, desktop, and consoles. As Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will work on improving application performance, size, battery efficiency, and stability. You'll report to the Engineering Manager on the Consumer App Foundation team.

You will:

• Work with numerous teams to define and implement plans to improve performance and stability of Roblox client applications across all supported platforms
• Identify new opportunities, build roadmaps, scope and drive execution of development projects
• Investigate performance bottlenecks and partner with other teams on their resolution to make our applications run lightning fast on any device
• Improve performance telemetry to detect and resolve performance regressions
• Promote best development and testing practices to maintain stability and performance of the application

You have:

• 5+ years  in C++, multithreading, and system programming for one or more platforms.
• Proficiency in performance benchmarking, profiling and optimization
• Strong expertise working on complex consumer applications for Android, iOS, macOS or Windows
• Experience with Lua or other scripting languages

As Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Animation team, you will leverage the Roblox game engine and tools to build groundbreaking experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the platform. Your efforts will not only help create amazing content, but more importantly, will help us highlight issues, improve and extend our animation tech, tools and pipeline for all developers. These efforts will enable our game developers to create engaging and delightful experiences for our millions of players.

We are looking for a software engineer who is passionate about animation and world class user experiences including both usability and performance.. You need to be proficient in C++ and have experience working on animation systems and tools. Prior experience with animation for games / interactive experiences is a huge plus.

You Will:

• Help develop experiences that push the quality bar beyond what was previously thought possible on the platform
• Analyze existing animation tech and tools and determine what is needed to meet a project's objectives
• Author documentation on issues, improvements and feature requests for all aspects of character animation tech on Roblox
• Work closely with gameplay engineers to implement gameplay interactions using animation tech
• Implement innovative solutions to feature requests and collaborate with the Roblox avatar animation team on larger features
• Have fun working with our internal content teams and community developers to improve the overall state of animation on Roblox

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience for with knowledge of character animation, game engines and tools
• Proficiency in C++: Strong C++ programming skills with an ability to write high quality, performant code; experience with Lua is a plus
• Passion about interactive: You are driven to build amazing experiences with great animations for users on the platform
• Foundation oriented mindset: You believe that strong 3D math skills and a well thought out code architecture are important
• Performance focus: You embrace software performance considerations, with an ability to implement performant solutions for platforms including mobile
• Personally Motivated: Self-sufficient, self-organized and able to take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle
• A Team player mentality: Ability to work closely with and inspire the rest of your team while displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills

The Avatar Team is at the heart of the Roblox experience. We build and evolve the systems that define how every player shows up in the metaverse — from how avatars look and move, to how they express themselves and interact with the world. Our work sits at the intersection of engine technology, animation, safety, and creator tools, and it has to scale to hundreds of millions of players across millions of experiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Default Abilities team, you will own the technical design and implementation of a growing library of high-quality default abilities for the platform avatar and ability manager. You will take abilities from concept to production, define patterns and abstractions that other teams can build on, and ensure our default abilities feel great, perform well, and work reliably across the full diversity of Roblox experiences and devices.

You Will:

• Develop avatar abilities that push the quality bar far beyond what was previously thought possible on the platform, combining state-of-the-art animation techniques with the practical constraints of a massively scaled real-time system.
• Design, implement, and ship new default abilities end-to-end - from early prototypes and technical exploration through productionization, rollout, and ongoing iteration.
• Build robust, reusable systems on top of the platform avatar and ability manager so that abilities are composable, data-driven, and reliable across millions of experiences and billions of avatar configurations.
• Collaborate extensively with world-class designers, animators, engine engineers, and product leadership to translate creative ability concepts into technically sound, performant implementations usable by every player.
• Define and uphold engineering best practices for ability development (architecture, documentation, testing, automation, and observability) to keep the abilities library maintainable as it grows.
• Profile, optimize, and harden abilities for performance and stability across a wide range of devices, from low-end mobile hardware to high-end PCs and consoles.
• Partner with Studio, engine, and creator-facing teams to ensure abilities are easy for developers to integrate, configure, and extend within their own experiences.
• Use qualitative feedback and quantitative signals (e.g., engagement, performance metrics, error reports) to debug complex runtime behaviors and continuously improve the feel, responsiveness, and reliability of abilities.
• Mentor other engineers, sharing deep expertise in avatar animation, character systems, and large-scale engine development, and help shape the long-term technical roadmap for default abilities on Roblox.

You Have:

• A strong technical foundation, with a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience in the gaming, animation, or software industry.
• Advanced expertise in avatar or character animation systems, with hands-on experience building and shipping state-of-the-art runtime animation pipelines.
• Proven software engineering excellence in C++ and a high-level scripting language such as Lua or Python, including experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex, performance-sensitive systems.
• Prior experience working with CG interactive characters — rigging, movement, behaviors and actions — and integrating them into modern game engines, animation systems, and/or large-scale real-time platforms.

You Are:

• A collaborative team member who thrives in cross-functional environments, partnering closely with artists, designers, and platform owners while mentoring other engineers.
• Mission-driven and excited about building a safe, high-quality, and civil metaverse where expressive avatars are core to how people connect.
• A proven problem solver who is comfortable operating in ambiguous spaces, driving 0-to-1 solutions for complex technical problems, and iterating quickly based on data and feedback.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Personalization team, you will use the Roblox game engine to build features that push the boundaries of our avatar technology, and build creative systems that make Roblox avatars simple and delightful to use. You will tackle the biggest projects, provide technical leadership, and coordinate with teams across Roblox to build systems used by tens of millions of monthly players and developers.

You are passionate about building outstanding systems and APIs in the Roblox game engine, enhancing avatar features, and enriching customization systems for Roblox players and developers. You'll work with Avatar technologies such as animation, clothing, hair, and shading. Experience in game or film development is especially translatable into this team and role.

You Will:

• Implement groundbreaking features in Roblox game engine to build the best avatar system in the world
• Build APIs for Roblox developers enabling in-experience creation of Roblox Avatars from scratchEnhance avatar fidelity and uniqueness on Roblox
• Use the Roblox game engine to build excellent vertical applications for multiple platforms (mobile, tablet, PC, and console)
• Refactor and improve our existing codebaseImprove system reliability, performance, and test coverage
• Work with numerous teams to help build the world's best user generated gaming platform
• Implement systems in a combination of C++ and Lua

You Have:

• 5+ years of professional experience working on a consumer-facing game engine and/or game application
• Proficiency with C++, 3D math, data structures, algorithms, and networking
• Experience working on character building and customization systems, editors, and content creation tools
• Experience building online console or mobile game titles
• Experience with game or film character systems such as animation, rigid-body or cloth/hair physics, or shading

As Senior Software Engineer on the Consumer Frontend team, you will leverage the Roblox tech stack and tools to build groundbreaking experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the platform. Your efforts will not only help create amazing content, but more importantly, will help us highlight issues, improve and extend our animation tech, tools and pipeline for all developers. These efforts will enable our game developers to create engaging and delightful experiences for our millions of players.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about Client side development. You need to be proficient in C++ or building client side system libraries on mobile/Desktop platforms. Prior experience building C++ based applications, libraries/frameworks or SDK is highly desirable.

You will:

• Be the primary C++ expert in the team and drive frontend C++ strategy for extending our interface layer.
• Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to expand frontend ecosystems and drive technical enhancements in engineering space.
• Implement innovative solutions to feature requests and collaborate with the Roblox Surface owners on new initiatives.
• Have fun working with our internal team members and community developers to improve the overall state of Lua App on Roblox

You have:

• 4+ years of experience with significant knowledge of system or mobile programming.
• Proficiency in C++: Strong C++ programming skills with an ability to write high quality, performant code; experience with Lua is a plus
• Passion about building frameworks and libraries: You are driven to build a strong platform with world class design patterns and cutting edge system architecture.
• Performance focus: You embrace software performance considerations, with an ability to implement performant solutions for platforms including mobile.
• Personally Motivated: Self-sufficient, self-organized and able to take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle
• A Team player mentality: Ability to work closely with and inspire the rest of your team while displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core UI team, you'll take the Roblox App experience to the next level - making it intuitive, reliable, and a joy to use. Our team sits at the intersection of platform engineering and product innovations. You'll work on systems and surfaces used by every Roblox user and creator in every game session. If you care deeply about how software feels - not just how it works - this is the role for you.

You Will:

• Design, build, and own end-to-end development of user-facing features and systems across mobile, desktop, VR, and consoles.
• Develop robust, extensible systems powering Roblox's core surfaces (Home, Avatar, Search, and more) used by hundreds of millions of users and creators.
• Create scalable solutions for building high-quality, intuitive, and reliable user interfaces that elevate the overall product experience.
• Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver cohesive, delightful user experience.

You Have:

• 4+ years of software development experience building large-scale, user-facing applications.
• Strong expertise in modern frontend technologies, including frameworks like React or similar, component-based architecture, and state management patterns.
• Experience delivering high-quality user experiences with attention to usability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Solid understanding of software design principles and frontend architecture, with the ability to design clean APIs and well-structured systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment on technical solutions.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Lua or React Native in a production environment.
• Experience with UI performance profiling and optimization.
• Experience developing applications across multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, VR, consoles).
• Familiarity with C++ for understanding Roblox engine integration.

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Avatar Identity engineering team, you will build experiences on Roblox to facilitate the building and customization of player avatars. The avatar is core to every player’s experience on Roblox and you’ll have a front-row seat in building a new way to customize that’ll be used by the millions of players that customize their avatar every day.

You Will:

• Core responsibility: develop new user-facing experiences on Roblox that allow players to customize their avatars in new and exciting ways
• As needed: add new features to the Roblox app (Luau/React) and build upon the game APIs used by third-party developers to customize player avatars (C++)
• Be an active participant in the direction and development of the team’s roadmap & strategy
• Collaborate closely with other engineers and cross-functional partners (product, design, art) in the Avatar and Marketplace teams

You Have:

• A track record of quality game(s) on the Roblox platform (very strong plus)
• Roblox / Luau development experience (strong plus). Alternately, experience in other game engineers such as Godot / Unity / Unreal / etc. is a plus
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience working with cross-functional partners, including Producers & 3D Artists
• C++ experience (a plus but not required)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

As a Software Engineer in our Creator group, you will push the envelope of what’s possible in top and emerging experiences on Roblox. You’ll focus on prototyping, deploying solutions with external development studios and iterating with cutting edge engine features. You’ll ultimately have a strong influence on our engine roadmap and APIs.

You Will:

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to external game development studios, helping them optimize performance, scalability, and quality.
• Work deeply on prototypes that push the boundaries of what our engine can support, contributing large amounts of Luau code to demonstrate the feasibility of various game modes.
• Identify, articulate, and advocate for core engine, performance and debugging tooling projects.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers in the Solutions team, the core engine and Roblox Studio teams to shape the future of the platform.
• Create demos and technical tutorials that serve as production-ready blueprints for the broader developer community.

You Have:

• Pursuing or possess an undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or an equivalent practical experience
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Lua, Luau, C# or C++ 
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into understandable and compelling guides and documentation 
• Roblox development experience is required
• A track record of quality game(s) on the Roblox platform is required

You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer.

As a Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, you’ll be an individual contributor focused on evolving the systems and processes which power Roblox’s design organization through scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for building the orchestration layers and internal tools that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively.

You have experience at the intersection of systems engineering and design tooling. You understand design systems, but your superpower is building the backend services, APIs, and data models that allow those systems to scale. Your work will help ensure our design tools, AI agents, and prototypes not only inspire—but deploy seamlessly into production environments.

You will:

• Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect our design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio).
• Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers (such as Model Context Protocol servers) to enable natural language generation of UI components, layouts, and prototypes.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure to abstract away complex DevOps workflows, creating "zero-config" development environments for non-technical designers.
• Design and maintain the data architecture that connects our design system to our AI data sources, ensuring design tokens and components are programmatically accessible and synced across multiple platforms.
• Create internal tools, develop plugins for tools like Figma and Cursor, and build web apps focused on design linting, code generation, and automated compliance at scale.
• Serve as the deeply technical bridge between core engineering, AI research, and product design, ensuring our design acceleration tools are secure, performant, and structurally sound.
• You will report to the Manager of Design Acceleration.

You have:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on full-stack or backend development, systems architecture, and API design.
• Demonstrated experience building scalable internal services, not just frontend interfaces.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and AI protocols (e.g., MCP).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, feature-flag management, version control (GitHub Enterprise), and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Figma plugin architecture and how to programmatically parse and manipulate design data at scale.
• (Nice to have) Experience with Roblox development, Lua/React-Lua, or game-engine UI architecture.
• (Nice to have) Experience with ASTs (Abstract Syntax Trees), compiler logic, or automated code generation.

Why Roblox?

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Role Overview

We are searching for a self-motivated individual who is passionate about Roblox and thrives in detail. You will be responsible for classifying content based on a specific set of guidelines to help us improve Roblox systems. As a Human Evaluator you will have the opportunity to provide us direct feedback on the performance of various products across the company. 

You will:

• Classify content based on a set of instructions
• Content classification includes the review and classification of text, image, video, and audio
• Track and document insights and trends related to annotation projects
• Test out new features and provide detailed feedback
• Become an expert in a variety of topics to enable more accurate evaluations
• Dedicate between 25-29 hours per week with a work schedule from Monday to Friday

You have:

• In-depth understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community.
• Strong gaming experience and ability to adapt to a variety of gaming environments
• Thorough knowledge of the Roblox Avatar Marketplace
• Insight into current trends within the platform
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated patience for repetitive tasks and attention to detail
• Effective time management skills
• Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio.
• Fluency in a second language is a plus

Nice to Have

• At least 1+ years of experience developing on Roblox or other creation platforms.
• Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio.
• Proficiency with Lua, xml and sql
• Fluency in a second language, such as: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian
• Prior experience with content moderation or data annotation.
• A deep passion for gaming trends and the Roblox community ecosystem.

Please note

• Benefits below only apply to full time employees in the US.
• This role is fully remote

Role Overview

We are searching for a self-motivated individual who is passionate about Roblox and thrives in detail. You will be responsible for classifying content based on a specific set of guidelines to help us improve Roblox systems. As a Human Evaluator you will have the opportunity to provide us direct feedback on the performance of various products across the company, but primarily for features within the studio and creator store. 

You will:

• Classify content based on a set of instructions; Content classification includes the review and classification of text, image, video, scripts, and audio
• Track and document insights and trends related to annotation projects
• Test out new features within studio and provide detailed feedback
• Become an expert in a variety of topics to enable more accurate evaluations
• Dedicate between 25-29 hours per week with a work schedule from Monday to Friday

You have:

• At least 1+ years of experience developing on Roblox or other creation platforms.
• Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio.
• Proficiency with Lua
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated patience for repetitive tasks and attention to detail
• Effective time management skills
• In-depth understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community.
• Fluency in a second language, such as: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian
• Prior experience with content moderation or data annotation.
• A deep passion for gaming trends and the Roblox community ecosystem.

Please note

• Benefits below only apply to full time employees in the US.
• This role is fully remote

As a Principal Software Engineer on Creator Services Data, you’ll be leading the company’s efforts to build the next generation Data Storage systems to power the millions of experiences on the Roblox Platform.  We run the mission critical cloud services, Data Stores, Memory Stores, and Badges, which are crucial for storing game state such as inventory and scores, implementing leaderboards, server lists, and trading, and tracking player progress and achievements.  Our team is also responsible for building dashboards to provide insights to Creators using cloud services including Client/Server Performance, Data Stores, and Memory Stores.  Finally, our team owns the Roblox Extended Services platform, which provides the capability for large experiences to purchase additional resources for existing services like Data Stores and new services built around compute and generative AI.

At its core, this team is focused on solving complex back end distributed systems and storage problems at scale.  However, our scope extends to full stack projects spanning all the way from the infrastructure layer, through data storage and data pipelines, microservices, telemetry, game servers, web development, UI, and UX design.  This team collaborates on multiple cross-company efforts and our projects are of extremely high importance to Roblox.  

You Will:

• Lead the design and development of improvements to existing products and design new cloud services to support our Creator Community.
• Build state-of-the-art data storage systems including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs.
• Expand the internal and customer facing cloud service observability capabilities through metrics collection, data pipelines, intelligent analytics, data visualization, and dashboards.
• Increase the capabilities and onboard new customers to the Roblox Extended Services platform.
• Work with our users (Creators) to identify product gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies.
• Provide on-call support for our Data products including responding to production alerts and outages.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical and non-technical guidance through design and code reviews, joint projects, 1:1s, and peer feedback.
• Lead collaborations on a cross-functional team including UX design, product management, project management, developer relations, documentation, customer support, and other engineering teams.
• Become a recognized technical leader across the company and contribute to company-wide initiatives.

You Have:

• 10+ years background in software development building with public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP), microservices and distributed systems
• 3+ years experience building and maintaining (not just using) data storage systems (relational databases, key/value stores, blob stores, etc)
• 10+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying robust, scalable, and well documented production-grade code
• 6+ years programming in C# and/or C++ (ideally both)
• 6+ years experience working on agile, fast-paced, high-impact software teams
• 4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates on complex software engineering projects

Desired (one or more of)

• Prior experience building big data pipelines or batch processing systems (MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Flume)
• Prior experience programming computer games, particularly in Lua/Luau
• Prior knowledge of data science, data analytics, machine learning, or AI
• Prior experience building graphical user interfaces, dashboards, or web application front ends

You Are:

• Innovative: We strive for novel solutions that bridge the technical needs of Roblox with the creative needs of our developer community. This typically involves tackling competing objectives and thinking creatively.
• Passionate: We are looking for new team members who are passionate about data storage technology, computer games, and software development. We are excited about building new products that will redefine the future of human online interaction.
• Versatile: The Data Pod is expanding its scope beyond providing low level storage solutions to building higher level services such as User Profiles and LiveOps Analytics. We are also working on projects such as Observability and Billing & Payments platforms. You need to be ready to learn new programming languages and tech stacks as we evolve.
• Responsible: Data Storage services cannot go down and cannot lose data. You are committed to join a team that strives for a 100% uptime and data durability.
• Team Oriented: You are ready to both guide and learn from others. You will set the standard on team collaboration and communication. You exemplify Roblox Values and Principles.

This is a hybrid/ onsite position. 

What you will do: 

• Pitch, design, implement, and own enemy NPC archetypes 
• Work with AI programmers to develop foundational NPC technology and implementing and tuning enemy AI behaviors 
• Work with animators to develop enemy locomotion and traversal, melee moves, ambient behaviors, and other custom abilities. Make every enemy archetype feel unique and memorable 
• Collaborate with the Design team to conceptualize, prototype, implement, tune, and balance gameplay mechanics and systems  
• Communicate with animation, programming, and art departments to effectively produce the assets and code support required for the enemies you’re owning 
• Write and maintain documentation that establishes the core vision of the enemy archetypes  
• Drive communication and collaboration for enemies you design and the levels they are in, ensuring communication across disciplines and meeting deadlines  
• Effective and respectful communicator and collaborator, both with other designers and members of other departments  
• Facilitate playtesting and feedback sessions to iterate on combat systems and fine-tune them based on player experiences 
• Mentor junior designers and contribute to the overall growth of the design team 

What skills you will use:  

• 5+ years of industry experience in combat design and/or technical design for games, specifically focused on developing action-adventure or shooter games 
• At least one shipped title as a combat designer or similar role. Experience with behavior trees or similar NPC AI concepts preferred 
• Strong coding ability: Computer Science degree preferred though not required  
• Proficient in using game engines and tools (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity) for combat implementation and design scripting (C#, Lua, Visual Scripting)  
• Welcomes feedback on their work and embraces the “let’s try it” mentality 
• Proficient and effective communication skills, including diagramming and sketching 
• Fluent in modern character action-adventure and shooter combat games. Maintains knowledge of the broader gaming landscape trends  
• Knowledge of narrative structure and how it intersects with gameplay and combat 
• A keen eye for detail in character action games, able to tune gameplay systems to make them feel smooth and impactful  
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills 

This is a hybrid/ onsite position. 

What you will do: 

• Pitch, design, implement, and own enemy NPC archetypes 
• Work with AI programmers to develop foundational NPC technology and implementing and tuning enemy AI behaviors 
• Work with animators to develop enemy locomotion and traversal, melee moves, ambient behaviors, and other custom abilities. Make every enemy archetype feel unique and memorable 
• Collaborate with the Design team to conceptualize, prototype, implement, tune, and balance gameplay mechanics and systems  
• Communicate with animation, programming, and art departments to effectively produce the assets and code support required for the enemies you’re owning 
• Write and maintain documentation that establishes the core vision of the enemy archetypes  
• Drive communication and collaboration for enemies you design and the levels they are in, ensuring communication across disciplines and meeting deadlines  
• Effective and respectful communicator and collaborator, both with other designers and members of other departments  
• Facilitate playtesting and feedback sessions to iterate on combat systems and fine-tune them based on player experiences 
• Mentor junior designers and contribute to the overall growth of the design team 

What skills you will use:  

• 5+ years of industry experience in combat design and/or technical design for games, specifically focused on developing action-adventure or shooter games 
• At least one shipped title as a combat designer or similar role. Experience with behavior trees or similar NPC AI concepts preferred 
• Strong coding ability: Computer Science degree preferred though not required  
• Proficient in using game engines and tools (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity) for combat implementation and design scripting (C#, Lua, Visual Scripting)  
• Welcomes feedback on their work and embraces the “let’s try it” mentality 
• Proficient and effective communication skills, including diagramming and sketching 
• Fluent in modern character action-adventure and shooter combat games. Maintains knowledge of the broader gaming landscape trends  
• Knowledge of narrative structure and how it intersects with gameplay and combat 
• A keen eye for detail in character action games, able to tune gameplay systems to make them feel smooth and impactful  
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills 

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Deepview team builds Anduril’s real-time 3D data visualization and analysis tool. Deepview ingests protobuf, image, video, and CSV data streams—rendering them in a time-synchronized world view with terrain, plots, and camera feeds for deep introspection of autonomous systems. The tool runs cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows) and supports both offline data analysis and live telemetry streaming over MAVLink, STANAG 4586, Flux, and gRPC.

Our team’s mission is to give engineers and operators the deepest possible visibility into what autonomous systems are doing and why. We build high-performance visualization software that handles massive data volumes from heterogeneous sources, enabling engineers across Anduril to debug, analyze, and validate autonomous behaviors in the field and in simulation.


WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop and extend Deepview’s real-time 3D rendering engine and 2D plotting capabilities using C++20 and OpenGL (via the Cinder framework).
• Build and optimize data ingestion pipelines for diverse formats including Protobuf, MCAP, HDF5, video (FFmpeg), KML, MAVLink telemetry logs, and CSV.
• Implement and maintain live telemetry streaming over gRPC, MAVLink, STANAG 4586, and Anduril protocols.
• Design cross-platform features targeting Linux, macOS, and Windows using CMake.
• Create APIs (including gRPC services and a Python client SDK) that allow external tools and scripts to interact with Deepview.
• Collaborate with mission teams across Anduril to support new data types, visualization needs, and debugging workflows.
• Test and validate features through unit testing and performance benchmarks.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience in C++ software engineering
• Experience with CMake-based build systems
• Experience developing on Linux-based environments
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with real-time graphics or visualization (OpenGL, Vulkan, or similar)
• Experience with 3D rendering frameworks (Cinder, OpenFrameworks, or similar)
• Experience with geospatial libraries (GDAL, KML) or terrain rendering
• Experience with Nix package management or reproducible build systems
• Experience developing with Python or Lua scripting

Who We Are:

Inversion builds advanced reentry systems to deliver next-generation capabilities from space.
 
Our mission is to make Earth radically more accessible by turning Low-Earth Orbit into an on-demand logistics domain. We see space not as a destination, but as a platform — one that unlocks unprecedented speed and global reach.
 
Our spacecraft are designed to deliver payloads anywhere on Earth in under an hour, operating through extreme reentry conditions and landing with high precision. These systems open the door to new ways of testing, delivering, and operating at hypersonic speeds.
 
Inherently dual-use, our technology is built to meet urgent national security needs while laying the groundwork for future commercial applications. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Spark Capital, and Lockheed Martin Ventures, and working with partners such as the U.S. Space Force and NASA, Inversion is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in space-based defense and logistics.

About the Role

As a Senior Test and Automation Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to build, test, maintain, and develop the automated hardware systems that support the simulation and test environments for our flight systems. The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions. You will play a key role in the automation of electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack. Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility.

What You'll Do

• Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to optimize resource utilization and allocation
• Develop emulators for flight hardware to support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
• Install and maintain servers, electrical ground support equipment (EGSE), and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches to support simulation workflows
• Perform preventative maintenance and troubleshooting to maximize simulation system availability
• Calibrate equipment to ensure simulation system performance
• Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in testing and automation of electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
• Proficiency in one or more embedded languages (C/C++, Rust, etc.)
• Proficiency in the integration and testing of mission- and safety-critical electronics
• Experience with Linux-based systems

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with modern DevOps practices
• Experience with async and multithreaded architectures
• Experience with data acquisition and logging
• Familiarity with time-series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB, TimescaleDB, Prometheus, etc.)
• Familiarity with message-oriented middleware (NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, etc.)
• Familiarity with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in office presence.

_{The California annual base salary for this role is currently $137,000 - $193,000.  Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity.} 

Who We Are:

Inversion builds advanced reentry systems to deliver next-generation capabilities from space.
 
Our mission is to make Earth radically more accessible by turning Low-Earth Orbit into an on-demand logistics domain. We see space not as a destination, but as a platform — one that unlocks unprecedented speed and global reach.
 
Our spacecraft are designed to deliver payloads anywhere on Earth in under an hour, operating through extreme reentry conditions and landing with high precision. These systems open the door to new ways of testing, delivering, and operating at hypersonic speeds.
 
Inherently dual-use, our technology is built to meet urgent national security needs while laying the groundwork for future commercial applications. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Spark Capital, and Lockheed Martin Ventures, and working with partners such as the U.S. Space Force and NASA, Inversion is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in space-based defense and logistics.

About the Role

As a Senior Back-end Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to design, develop, and maintain the architecture and server-side logic of the applications that support the simulation and test environments for our flight systems. The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions. You will play a key role in the design and development of data management and self-service tools that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack. Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility.

What You'll Do

• Design, deploy, and maintain the server-side logic and infrastructure of the applications that support simulation workflows, including high-performance computing (HPC), software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
• Select a back-end tech stack that ensures the performance and scalability of our applications
• Design and implement a back-end architecture that strikes the right balance between simplicity and flexibility
• Design and develop databases architectures and data pipelines to meet configuration and data management needs
• Leverage self-documenting API tools and technologies to develop robust and efficient APIs
• Leverage modern web frameworks to develop server-side logic
• Work with front-end engineers to integrate the front-end with the back-end and deliver a smooth user experience (UX)
• Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following qualifications to be considered for this position:

• 6+ years of professional experience in back-end or full-stack development
• Expertise in back-end engineering and best practices
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Experience with modern DevOps practices
• Experience with one or more back-end architectures (monolithic, modular, serverless, event-based, microservices, etc.)
• Experience with one or more API architectures (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, Webhooks, etc.)
• Experience with one or more database systems (MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB,  InfluxDB, etc.)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.)

The ideal candidate will also meet one of the following qualifications:

• Expertise in database administration for both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Expertise in SaaS/PaaS development
• Expertise in network administration

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Python and Python-based web frameworks (Django, Flask, Quart, FastAPI, etc.)
• Extensive experience with C/C++ or Rust
• Experience with async and multithreaded architectures
• Experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB, TimescaleDB, Prometheus, etc.)
• Experience with message-oriented middleware (NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Familiarity with one or more front-end JS frameworks (React, Angular, etc.)
• Familiarity with one or more open-source cloud computing platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, etc.) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
• Familiarity with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in office presence.

_{The California annual base salary for this role is currently $139,000 - $201,000.  Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity.} 

Who We Are:

Eras of humanity can often be defined by a dominant transportation mode - horse drawn chariots, ocean going boats, or aircraft. These were spurred by a small group of people rigorously focused on building technology to achieve faster access to more of the world.  We seek to usher in a new era of humanity defined by universal access to the whole globe free of borders and the presence of a routine way from space to Earth. To do this, we are building highly maneuverable re-entry vehicles that can loiter in orbit before precision landing back on Earth. 

About the Role

As an Electronics Integration and Development Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to design and develop the hardware-in-the-loop testbeds for our flight systems. You will own the integration of flight, simulation, and test hardware, and will be responsible for everything from making wiring harnesses to designing PCBs and writing code. The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions. You will play a key role in the design, development, and integration of specialized hardware and software that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack. The ideal candidate is a tinkerer who enjoys hands-on experimentation with embedded systems (such as microcontrollers and single-board computers) to quickly turn ideas into prototypes but also has the ability to turn those prototypes into production-ready hardware. Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility.

What You'll Do

• Integrate and develop electronics hardware needed to enable on-demand, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation workflows
• Create schematics and layouts for custom hardware (wiring harnesses and PCBs), with a focus on interface boards, breakout systems, and inter-system connectivity
• Perform hands-on assembly of prototype wiring harnesses and PCBs
• Own the transition from prototype to production, including overseeing external fabrication and assembly
• Analyze circuit performance to ensure design meets requirements and perform acceptance testing to ensure hardware meets specifications
• Write software as needed (e.g.: embedded software for micros, test scripts, etc.)
• Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in electronics integration, development, and testing
• Experience with custom wiring harness design and assembly, including connector selection, pin mapping, wire sizing, and shielding strategies for EMI/EMC
• Experience using common laboratory equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, data acquisition systems, etc.)
• Basic coding proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Experience using PCBA design tools (Altium Designer, EAGLE, KiCad, etc.)
• Experience implementing mixed-signal PCBs with digital communications (UART, I2C, SPI, RS422, RS485, CAN, PCIe, Ethernet, Spacewire, etc.)

Desired Qualifications

• Expertise in PCB design and best practices for production-ready hardware
• Expertise in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) and/or embedded C/C++
• Experience designing high-reliability and/or safety-critical systems (e.g., for spacecraft or automotive applications)

Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in office presence.

_{The California annual base salary for this role is currently $140,000 - 170,000 Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity.} 

About the role:

As a member of the CDN Infrastructure team, you will help to scale and improve our services, availability and reliability by working with other backend engineers and our product team to identify problems, and build solutions that delight developers building on Vercel.

In this role, you’ll wear many hats—designing systems, writing code, and diving into production to solve tough problems. As part of the CDN Infrastructure team, you’ll help build and run Vercel’s built-in CDN, powering framework-aware routing, caching, and high-performance traffic delivery. We work with both our own infrastructure and cloud providers’ platforms to handle networking, TLS termination, routing, storage, and caching, all with the goal of creating innovative edge services that make the web faster and more reliable.

What you will do:

• Create new primitives to expand the product feature set of Vercel CDN
• Optimize the Vercel CDN experience to improve reliability and lower latency
• Analyze web latency to find sources of tail latency
• Advance the developer experience for 15+ developers working primarily in Lua
• Other examples of what you would work on:
  • https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-global-routing-faster-with-bloom-filters
  • https://vercel.com/blog/cdn-request-collapsing

About you:

• 5+ years of experience with Lua
• Are knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, & HTTP
• Intrigued about tackling the complex challenges serving petabytes of data and billions of requests to millions of people
• A collaborative team player who believes in the power of strong teams to drive significant changes and innovation
• Are keen to experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure and reliable systems that delight Vercel's users

Bonus if you:

• Comfortable in Golang

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000 - $280,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. 

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our CDN Security team. You will secure customer websites by identifying malicious traffic patterns within billions of requests to millions of people. Your job is to ensure Vercel customers only pay for traffic they consider valid. You will report directly to the head of the CDN Product area.

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.

What you will do:

• Analyze traffic patterns to identify bad traffic and bad actors
• Build & operate a scalable low latency Firewall for millions of websites
• Push the state of the art forward for web security

About You:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience handling denial of service attacks
• Knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, and network protocols (e.g. HTTP, TCP)
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience working in Go or Lua
• Advanced Bot Detection & Observability capabilities

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The remote base pay range for this role is $187,000-$280,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. 

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

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UX DESIGN

What We Do

We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative, while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for talented, experienced Lead Technical UI Designer to work on Rocket League. In this position, you will lead and manage a team of Technical UI designers implementing UI systems design in Unreal engine, building rapid prototypes, layouts, visual scripting, and leveling up our workflows. You will also be hands-on as a developer! You will work with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Engineers to ship these features to millions of users around the world.

In this role, you will

• Lead a team of Tech UI designers implementing UI systems in Rocket League; work collaboratively across multiple teams to create consistency
• Set up a culture of mentorship and excellence within the Tech UI design craft
• Establish best practices and procedures for Tech UI Design
• Work on UI Systems Design, break down feature/wireframe into necessary widgets, materials, and input navigation
• Implement blueprint logic when presentation logic calls for it and assist UI Artists where necessary to implement special presentation behavior
• Debug blueprints/UMG issues quickly using various tools and techniques

What we're looking for

• Experience managing a team of 2–6 people or equivalent training
• Expertise in building UI and experiences in game engines and across multiple platforms (mobile, web, pc, consoles)
• Experience building materials/shaders in Unreal or equivalent
• Professional engine experience (Custom engine, Unity, UE4, Lumberyard, Snowdrop, etc.), and have game industry 3D-package experience (3D Studio, Maya, etc.)
• Experience in visual or scripting languages such as Lua, Blueprints, etc
• You can "translate" communication across departments (i.e., talk to engineering about UI Art needs, summarize technical issues, etc), but also have empathy for non-technical team members and the ability to empower others on your team

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

Work Arrangement

This is an onsite position in Tampa, FL, Huntsville , or Northern, VA.

Job Overview

A Software Engineer 2 is an experienced professional responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. This person serves as an independent contributor implementing software solutions with light supervision from more senior members of the software department. They have a strong understanding of programming languages, software development methodologies, and debugging techniques and contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from initial design to testing and deployment.

Essential Functions

• Contribute during the entire software development process including requirements, design, implementation, test, debugging and deployment.
• Develop Embedded Linux, Windows PC and microcontroller software applications using C, C++, and occasionally other programming languages.
• Maintain computer programs using advanced software programming and/or scripting languages, techniques and standards.
• Support specification, design, development, maintenance, integration, documentation, debug and testing of software for Windows and embedded software applications in C and C++.
• Embedded applications in custom headless devices with focus on real-time performance aspects including multi-threading, time synchronization.
• Support configuration, troubleshooting, data analysis, and integration of a wide variety of applications and equipment such as internal software libraries and products, GPS receivers, LiDAR sensors, Inertial sensors, network routers, radio modems, meteorological sensors, serial port hubs, etc.
• Review and evaluate technological developments in hardware, software, and telecommunications for applicability to current or future requirements.
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Design, develop, deploy, configure, document and debug software, while properly escalating issues to meet deadlines.
• Support software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), bench testing, and flight testing
• Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development lifecycle, and ensure reuse of code.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Troubleshoot and debug existing software and correct defects.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Standard Essential Functions

• Regular and reliable attendance on a full time basis [or in accordance with posted schedule].
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
• Embodies AEVEX’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Qualifications

• Knowledge in one or multiple programming languages, such as C, C++, Python, Lua, Java
• Proficient in software development of microcontroller level embedded systems
• Knowledge of communication protocols (e.g., SPI, I2C, UART, CAN)
• Proficiency with developing Autopilot systems, ground control stations, or flight simulation software is highly desirable
• Analytical skills to interpret complex data sets
• Problem-solving skills to determine the cause of bugs and resolve complaints
• Ability to grow your professional skills and learn from challenges
• Organization and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Linux, Linux programming or Embedded Linux concepts.
• Working knowledge of Git or other version control systems.
• Knowledge of software development using Microsoft Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related field required.

Experience

• 3+ years of software development experience
• Prior experience developing Autopilot systems, ground control stations, or flight simulation software is a plus
• Prior experience with FPGA development is a plus

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties the employee is:

• Frequently required to sit, and to reach to use computers and other office equipment

For the purpose of this summary, occasionally is used to represent up to 1/3 of the time given to the work day, frequently represents 1/3 to 2/3 of the time and constantly represents 2/3 or more of the time.

Security Clearance

• Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret DoD clearance, U.S. Citizenship required.

Job Overview

A Software Engineer 2 is an experienced professional responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. This person serves as an independent contributor implementing software solutions with light supervision from more senior members of the software department. They have a strong understanding of programming languages, software development methodologies, and debugging techniques and contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from initial design to testing and deployment.

Essential Functions

• Contribute during the entire software development process including requirements, design, implementation, test, debugging and deployment.
• Develop Embedded Linux, Windows PC and microcontroller software applications using C, C++, and occasionally other programming languages.
• Maintain computer programs using advanced software programming and/or scripting languages, techniques and standards.
• Specification, design, development, maintenance, integration, documentation, debug and testing of software for Windows and embedded software applications in C and C++.
• Embedded applications in custom headless devices with focus on real-time performance aspects including multi-threading, time synchronization.
• Configuration, troubleshooting, data analysis, and integration of a wide variety of applications and equipment such as internal software libraries and products, GPS receivers, LiDAR sensors, Inertial sensors, network routers, radio modems, meteorological sensors, serial port hubs, etc.
• Review and evaluate technological developments in hardware, software, and telecommunications for applicability to current or future requirements.
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Design, develop, deploy, configure, document and debug software, while properly escalating issues to meet deadlines.
• Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development lifecycle, and ensure reuse of code.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Troubleshoot and debug existing software and correct defects.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Standard Essential Functions

• Regular and reliable attendance on a full time basis [or in accordance with posted schedule].
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
• Embodies AEVEX’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Knowledge in one or multiple programming languages, such as C, C++, Python, Lua, Java
• Proficient in software development of microcontroller level embedded systems
• Knowledge of communication protocols (e.g., SPI, I2C, UART, CAN)
• Prior experience developing Autopilot systems, ground control stations, or flight simulation software is highly desirable
• Analytical skills to interpret complex data sets
• Problem-solving skills to determine the cause of bugs and resolve complaints
• Ability to grow your professional skills and learn from challenges
• Possess good organization and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Linux, Linux programming or Embedded Linux concepts.
• Experience using Git or other version control systems.
• Knowledge of software development using Microsoft Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering or a related field.

Experience

• Must have at least 2-5 years’ experience working through the design, development, testing, release cycle and delivering software products.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties the employee is:

• Frequently required to sit, and to reach to use computers and other office equipment
• For the purpose of this summary, occasionally is used to represent up to 1/3 of the time given to the work day, frequently represents 1/3 to 2/3 of the time and constantly represents 2/3 or more of the time.

Security Clearance

• Ability to obtain/maintain a Secret DoD clearance, U.S. Citizenship required.

Disclaimer:

AEVEX Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.

Job Overview

The Embedded Systems Group Lead serves both as lead engineer and as a technical manager. The Group Lead provides both technical direction and organizational leadership for the embedded systems software engineering team developing advanced autonomy, control, and mission systems for AEVEX’s UAS platforms. This individual serves as an in-house expert, both for managers from other departments who need software solutions and the less experienced staff within the department. The Embedded Systems Group Lead serves as the primary leader and advocate for the software engineering team representing their needs, removing roadblocks, and acting as their voice to program management, customers, and company leadership. This role bridges technical execution and strategic alignment ensuring that software deliverables meet mission, schedule, and quality objectives while fostering a high-performance engineering culture. The Group Lead looks at different possible solutions and how feasible those options are. The Group Lead will oversee multiple concurrent projects, day-to-day leadership of engineers, resource management, and serve as the primary interface between the software team and program management, systems engineering, flight test, customers, and company leadership. The Group Lead is also responsible for keeping proprietary information confidential.

Essential Functions

• Lead a multidisciplinary software engineering group responsible for embedded, autonomy, and ground-station UAS software development.
• Manage team workload, task assignment, and performance across multiple concurrent programs.
• Balance staffing, priorities, and technical focus to meet both near-term deliverables and long-term capability growth.
• Interface with Flight Test, Systems Engineering, and Hardware teams to ensure system-level integration and rapid iteration.
• Serves as the primary interface between software engineering, program management, customers, and executives.
• Coordinates seamlessly with systems, hardware, and test teams to deliver integrated UAS capabilities
• Implement networked and containerized system design.
• Provide cradle-to-grave ownership of software developed after release, including updates, support, and technical oversight.
• Integrate and maintain real-time systems for flight-critical and autonomy software components.
• Design and oversee integration of sensors, GPS/INS fusion, and communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, TCP/UDP).
• Develop and maintain software for embedded Linux and microcontroller-based systems using C, C++, and Python and occasionally other programming languages (C#, Lua, etc).
• Guide implementation of frameworks such as Docker, ROS2, MAVLINK, and TCP/UDP communication for distributed autonomy and mesh networking.
• Oversee embedded and UAV autonomy system software design and integration.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines, software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing environments.
• Oversee communication protocol design and debugging across mixed hardware interfaces.
• Oversee integration of sensors, radios, routers, and mission equipment into distributed UAV systems.
• Evaluate and integrate new frameworks, open-source libraries, and technologies into the tech base.
• Define and document software requirements, architectures, and interfaces across embedded and companion computing environments.
• Conduct real-time performance optimization and deterministic behavior assurance.
• Promote configuration management, versioning, and documentation discipline.
• Encourages experimentation and technical excellence while ensuring disciplined engineering practices.
• Anticipate technology needs and workforce scaling.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Regular and reliable attendance on a full time basis [or in accordance with posted schedule].
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
• Embodies AEVEX’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Understanding of configuration, troubleshooting, data analysis, and integration of a wide variety of applications and equipment such as internal software libraries and products, GPS receivers, LiDAR sensors, inertial sensors, network routers, radio modems, serial port hubs, etc.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Python, and exposure to C#, Lua, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with ArduPilot or PX4 frameworks preferred.
• Familiarity with ROS, Docker, and distributed networked systems.
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, version control, and software verification in R&D environments.
• Ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts and program status to diverse internal and external audiences.
• Ability to aligns technical execution with program and company objectives.
• Ability to task technical risks in a chaotic environment.
• Champions AEVEX’s culture and empowers employees to take responsibility for their jobs and goals.
• Engages employees by creating a climate in which they want to do their best.
• Sets performance standards and encourages employee engagement and results through delegation, continuous feedback, goal setting, and performance management.
• Maintains employee work schedules.
• Provides oversight and direction to the employees in accordance with AEVEX’s policies and procedures.
• Ability to serves as lead advocate for the Software team, consistently representing and supporting the engineering team’s needs and perspectives to leadership.
• Ability to build and develop high-performing teams through mentorship, accountability, and empowerment.
• Ability to clearly articulates expectations to Software team and is transparent in decision making.
• Ability to takes ownership of technical outcomes, schedule adherence, and team performance metrics.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related field required, MS preferred

 Experience

• 7+ years of software development experience, with experience in technical leadership or teamlead roles preferred.
• Proven experience developing autopilot systems, ground control stations, or flight simulation software.
• Prior experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or multi-agent coordination is highly preferred.
• Extensive experience with embedded systems and Linux-based environments.
• Experience in communication protocol design and debugging across mixed hardware.
• Experience across defense and commercial UAV applications.
• Experience on both military and commercial applications.
• Experience with embedded and companion computing environments (NVIDIA Jetson/Orin, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, STM32).

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties the employee is:

• Occasionally required to stand for extended periods of time

For the purpose of this summary, occasionally is used to represent up to 1/3 of the time given to the work day, frequently represents 1/3 to 2/3 of the time and constantly represents 2/3 or more of the time.

Security Clearance

• Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret DoD clearance, U.S. Citizenship required.

Disclaimer

AEVEX Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.

Overview:   The Senior Software Development Engineer L4 is expected to successfully work through complex tasks independently, understand the intricacies of the software development life cycle, and display strong adherence to fundamental software engineering principles in the production of software. This position requires a deep understanding of computer architecture and other key areas, including software testing and scalability.

This role will contribute to a hospital system data platform that ingests and processes clinical data, including patient records, lab results, surgical data, and hospital system messages, and delivers customized alerting and reporting to clinical staff. The engineer will be expected to work with a high degree of independence once onboarded, and will have opportunities to mentor and coach junior members of the team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively to write high quality, testable code that meets the “Definition of Done” as it relates to team commitments;
• Utilize a “Test-First” approach to software development, where possible, in which the test is developed before the code;
• Participate in design and code reviews with other engineers;
• Create automated unit, system and acceptance tests and participate in test plan reviews;
• Actively support and contribute to end of iteration demos;
• Responsible for assigned integration, testing and deployment tasks;
• Work with product management to scope and estimate product enhancements;
• Design, implement, unit test software, and test software following defined processes;
• Fix software defects (internal or customer reported) following defined process;
• Actively foster continuous team improvement by being accountable for actions and continuously striving to become a better problem solver;
• Contribute to team retrospectives, helping to identify and resolve team impediments;
• Write and maintain documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections;
• Actively participate in the change management process as business and technical scope is adjusted;
• Develop and maintain integrations that process and filter inbound hospital system messages, including parsing, validating, and routing clinical data into the platform;
• Support cloud migration efforts, contributing to the transition of existing on-premise workloads toward AWS-based infrastructure;
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing guidance on code quality, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices;
• Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success.
• On Call Policy: Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical issues, including outside standard business hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays), ensuring timely response and resolution as per defined SLAs.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience, with demonstrated proficiency in C# and MS SQL Server; strong foundation in data structures and algorithms required;
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture;
• Experience with Python or similar scripting languages is a plus;
• Experience with Lua, particularly for message intake, filtering, and processing, is a plus;
• Experience with or demonstrated interest in cloud platforms, particularly AWS, in support of ongoing migration efforts.
• Advanced design/debugging/coding skills;
• Builds secure applications and adheres to security standards;
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and take ownership of complex technical problems with minimal supervision;
• Strong team player with a collaborative approach to engineering, bringing energy and engagement to standups, retrospectives, and cross-functional work;
• Demonstrated high personal integrity and ability to earn trust from others;
• Exhibits a growth mindset, seeks feedback often and is effective in continuous personal and professional development;
• Continuously pursuing self-directed learning activities aimed at developing expertise within technical domain, including reading relevant publications, participating in domain forums or groups etc.;
• Ability to anticipate and look for creative ways to solve problems and apply best practices.
• Communication, organization, and teamwork skills.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.

About the Role: 

Our Public Sector team is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to serve as a critical bridge between Dragos and our federal customers, helping protect the nation’s critical infrastructure. Partnering closely with our sales account managers, you’ll engage with public sector stakeholders to understand their mission requirements, design tailored cybersecurity solutions, and guide them from proof-of-concept through successful deployment. Acting as both a technical consultant and trusted advisor, you’ll ensure our solutions deliver maximum value and align with best practices. Your work will directly strengthen the cybersecurity resilience of federal agencies, advancing national security in the process.

Responsibilities: 

• Engage in pre- and post-sales processes to grasp customer requirements, technical goals, and their operating environment.
• Provide consultative recommendations to our clients, ensuring they are fully aware of our offerings and best practices.
• Conduct tailored product demonstrations to showcase how our solutions meet customers' specific needs.
• Assist at trade shows and conferences to support our sales efforts.
• Collaborate with sales to select and design the right solutions that align with customer objectives.
• Execute proof-of-concept deployments, manage them, and troubleshoot any issues.
• Respond to inbound queries related to our products and services, including requests for information, proposals, and statements of work.

Qualifications: 

• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance is required.
• Demonstrated experience working with federal government agencies, with a strong understanding of federal procurement processes, regulations, and policies to effectively drive sales and build relationships.
• At least 3 years of experience in a pre-sales or consultation. 
• At least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity.
• Familiarity with the ICS/OT discipline (e.g., protocols, DCS, SCADA, etc.).
• Strong foundation in networking and systems, including TCP/IP, OSI and Purdue models, Linux command‑line usage, packet analysis with Wireshark/Tshark, and log/telemetry analysis using Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Experience working with cloud and virtualized environments, including AWS, VMware, and Hyper‑V, along with basic scripting skills in languages such as Python or Lua to support automation and analysis.
• Strong skills in presentation, relationship building, and negotiation.
• Willingness to travel regularly up to 50%.
• East Coast location is preferred. 

Compensation: 

• OTE: $220,000  
• Competitive Equity Package  
• Comprehensive Benefits Plan 

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