Principal Software Engineer, Echodyne
Full Stack
$145.3-217.9k
+ Stock options
Designing and building advanced radar solutions
Open for applications
Designing and building advanced radar solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$145.3-217.9k
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years building customer-facing, production-grade software systems
- Modern full-stack expertise: React (or equivalent) front-ends and async backend services (Tokio/Rust or similar)
- Strong experience with modular architectures, documented API contracts, and robust service lifecycles
- Designed for real-world constraints: field/defense/automotive deployments or similar high-stakes, performance-critical systems
- Hands-on with Python and/or Rust and/or C/C++ for practical, scalable solutions
- Skilled collaborator with product, UX, and technical experts; strong communication in cross-functional contexts
- Track record mentoring peers and driving technical excellence without direct authority
- Familiar with CI/CD practices, observability, and resilient system patterns
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
What the job involves
- Echodyne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team
- Echodyne is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build our next-generation radar software platform advancing mission-critical security for defense and automotive applications
- You’ll play a key role in architecting robust solutions, collaborating across engineering, product, and UX, and ensuring our technology thrives in real-world, dynamic environments
- Deliver core platform components: async (Tokio/Rust) backend services, well-defined APIs, and real-time data/event models
- Partner closely with React/front-end teams to enable shared components, efficient state management, and system health visualizations
- Advance prototypes to production: transform algorithms or domain logic into well-tested, high-performance endpoints with solid observability
- Architect for resilience: address intermittent connectivity, graceful degradation, security hardening, and offline scenarios
- Drive quality and velocity: refine CI/CD, improve testing (performance, contract/property), and establish clear instrumentation and SLO/error budgets
- Mentor and influence: facilitate clear design narratives, code reviews, and integrate product and field feedback into the development lifecycle
Application process
- We will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S
Our take
Echodyne builds next-generation radar systems that help make the world a safer and smarter place. By combining advanced physics (metamaterials) with clever software, they've shrunk down high-performance radar (once only found in fighter jets) into devices that can fit in your hand. These radars give drones, vehicles, and security systems better "eyes" in the sky, offering incredibly detailed situational awareness for everything from defence missions to public safety operations.
Their technology is used by governments, defence agencies, and private sector organisations all over the world to protect high-stakes environments. And with systems like EchoGuard and EchoShield, they offer compact, affordable radar solutions that detect and track even hard-to-spot threats, making them a key player in everything from border security to drone delivery.
Recently, they teamed up with Picogrid, integrating their radar into Picogrid's Legion platform, think of it as a kind of "mission control" for data and sensors. This means military and security teams can now access real-time radar data alongside other mission tools, all in one place. It's a huge step forward in unified defence technology, making it easier to see threats, act fast, and stay ahead of modern danger. And with drone activity and airspace challenges only growing, Echodyne is going to be vital for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$135m
LATE VC
Sep 2019
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $199m
Company HQ
Totem Lake, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Eben Frankenberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an EVP at TerraPower, Intellectual Ventures, and Onyx Software.
Tom Driscoll
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously spent 3 years at Intellectual Ventures as a Consultant and Managing Director and Principle Technologist. Prior to that, they spent 5 years at Duke University as a Research Scientist.
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