Senior Integration Engineer

The role

You will lead driver development and vehicle onboarding inside the URZA integration layer. You will design adapters and translation layers connecting URZA to vehicle control protocols, sensor stacks, and third-party autonomy systems.

What you will do

• Build vehicle drivers for new aerial, ground, and marine platforms inside the URZA integration layer.
• Build sensor, payload, and third-party autonomy adapters.
• Translate vendor data into URZA's world model.
• Own HITL test plans and integration tests.
• Drive new platforms from delivered to URZA-controlled before live test.
• Partner with vehicle OEMs, sensor providers, and autonomy partners on integration design and debugging.
• Build shared libraries and scaffolding that compress time-to-integrate.
• Mentor mid-level Integration Engineers.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering
• 2+ years on integrations, drivers, middleware, or robotics software
• Strong proficiency in Python, C++, or Rust
• Hands-on with vehicle control protocols and autopilot software (MAVLink, ROS / ROS2, ArduPilot or PX4)
• Ability to debug at the message level
• Pub-sub middleware fluency
• HITL workflow experience
• U.S. citizenship is required due to ITAR regulations
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance

Nice to have

• Hands-on with autonomous systems or unmanned vehicles (UAS, UGV, USV, UUV)
• Zenoh or comparable pub-sub middleware (DDS, ROS2 RMW)
• Sensor integration depth (LIDAR, cameras, IMUs, GNSS)
• Autonomy algorithm depth (planning, controls, perception, SLAM)
• Prior defense, autonomy, or robotics company experience
• Active security clearance

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage with zero paycheck premiums for you and your family
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company match
• Equity grants for new hires
• Unlimited PTO
• 11 Paid holidays
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in November, & December
• Generous Parental Leave
• Military Leave for annual training or service requirements
• FSA
• DCFSA
• HSA
• Professional Development Opportunities

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required due to ITAR regulations
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance required

About the company

NODA is a veteran-owned Series A defense technology company building the orchestration layer for autonomous unmanned systems. Their platform, URZA, coordinates fleets of heterogeneous vehicles across air, sea, and land.