Software Engineer, Frontend Lead

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results. The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic. Most frontend roles ask you to move pixels around a dashboard. This one asks you to architect the interface that controls the largest drone swarm on the planet. You'll lead the frontend architecture for Legion's Command & Control platform: the software that lets a single operator plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft, in real time, over intermittent comms, at a scale nobody else in the industry is attempting. This isn't CRUD. It's real-time, dense telemetry visualization, and interface design for a problem space that barely has prior art. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own and architect the frontend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft - Build real-time, collaborative interfaces for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, even when comms drop - Design and ship new UI concepts for representing vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, data link management, and more, much of it with no existing playbook to follow - Set the frontend architecture, patterns, and standards that the rest of the team builds on - Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps WHAT YOU'VE DONE - Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience - 8+ years building complex, production frontend applications, with a track record of owning frontend ar