Embedded DevOps Engineer

Spear AI is seeking an engineer to provide DevOps and infrastructure for the embedded software team on our hardware platforms. This person will also serve as an informal interface between the embedded software team and the company-wide software group, reporting to the VP of software but co-located with the hardware team. Your job will be to provide best practices for HIL, SIL, CI/CD, Deployment, Provisioning, Configuration, etc., to the firmware team using Spear AI’s cloud-based infrastructure and applications. Spear AI serves the national security industry, providing hardware, software, and data solutions that span classification levels and are intended for operational deployment. Spear AI is a rapidly growing company with a commitment to the development of excellent products through continuous fielding. Spear offers competitive pay, stock options, excellent benefits, and generous paid time off. This role goes to sea. You will personally participate in buoy deployments, recovery operations, and at-sea testing several times a year. The work requires the ability to lift and handle equipment on a small boat in open water, communicate clearly under field conditions, and perform fine manipulations on hardware while underway. This is not an optional or occasional aspect of the job. It is one of the main reasons the position exists and one of the things that make our software better than anyone else’s. RESPONSIBILITIES If you’re the right candidate, within your first 60 days, four things will be true: - You’ll have crafted and partially implemented a plan for CI/CD/HIL/SIL for our firmware. - You’ll have evaluated our current provisioning and configuration systems and made substantial improvements that have been moved to production. - You’ll have been to sea at least three times and have a good understanding of what our operators need to be successful. - You’ll be deeply integrated with your teammates and emotionally invested in the mission and collective success. This po