Build & Release Engineer

About Overwatch:

Overwatch Imaging is an imagery intelligence technology company working to bring sensor autonomy to time-critical airborne search detection tracking and monitoring missions. Our Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software native to our own line of purpose-built Smart Sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms bringsSuperhuman VisionandWorkload Reductionto users of real-time imagery intelligence systems. We fundamentally believe that modern edge processing and AI-enabled autonomy can perform an important set of time-critical imagery intelligence missions better faster and more safely than humans can alone.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River Oregon we support private sector companies as well as federal state and local agencies around the world with missions ranging from wildfire mapping and disaster response to law enforcement border security maritime domain awareness and tactical intelligence.

About this Role:

Overwatch is seeking a Build & Release Engineer to own and evolve how we build package and deploy our C based software across Jetson-based edge systems and x86 environments while ensuring that builds are fast reliable and reproducible and that deployments work consistently in real-world and air-gapped environments.

What Youll Do:

Build System Ownership

Continuously improve the C build ecosystem including:

• Improve the structure and evolution of our CMake based build system
• Improve build performance modularity and long-term maintainability
• Ensure the build system scales with codebase complexity and remains understandable to the team
• Drive consistency across C Python and emerging Rust components

Dependency & Packaging Systems

• Establish reliable reproducible approaches to dependency management and packaging
• Ensure consistency across development CI and deployed systems
• Improve how build artifacts are versioned distributed and consumed

Infrastructure Reliability

• Own the reliability and scalability of build and CI systems acrossx86 and ARM (Jetson) environments
• Improve infrastructure consistency and maintainability
• Reduce instability and flakiness in builds and test execution

System Visibility & Reliability

• Improve visibility into build health failures and performance
• Ensure issues are diagnosable and actionable
• Enable engineers to trust the build and release system

What Youll Bring:

Core Experience

• B.S. in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in C build systems build/release engineering or similar roles
  
• Experience working in Linux-based development environments

Technical Strengths

• Build system design structure and performance optimization
• Dependency management and packaging systems
• CI/build infrastructure in multi-architecture environments (x86 ARM)

Bonus Experience

• Jetson or other ARM-based systems
• Cross-compilation environments
• Offline or air-gapped deployments
• Mixed-langage builds (C CUDA Rust Python)
  
• Deployment of machine learning models to TensorRT environments
  
• Offline or air-gapped deployment installer systems and upgrade/migration workflows

What Success Looks Like:

• Build system is clear modular and scalable
• Developer workflows and build results are consistent and aligned
• Builds are fast reliable and reproducible across environments
• Dependency and packaging systems are consistent and predictable
• Build infrastructure is stable and low-maintenance
• Packaged software is reliable and deterministic
  
  

What We Offer:

• Growth Opportunities: As a team member of a true startup you will learn by doing andshapeour future. The opportunities are limitless for those who want to grow their career.

• Impact Opportunity: We work on missions that matter to keep people safe and make the world better and we do it at the speed of a startup.

• Team Collaboration: Work in a fast-paced collaborative environment with amazing teammates. The Overwatch Imaging leadership team believes in an open-door policy meaning everyone has a voice and access to guidance advice feedback and the ability to pitch crazynew ideas.

• Late Start Wednesday: A weekly blockto havefocus time away from meetings and calls. An opportunity to work from home flex yourscheduleor self-directed time to focus on training and development.

• Time Off: Generous unlimited PTO policy to empower employees to make decisions about work life balance based on work and home needs.

• Holidays: Overwatch Imaging recognizes 10 company holidays.

• Ownership: Equity: Stock Options in our growing company.

• Health Benefits: Medical and Dental premiums are 100% covered for employees and their families plus a pre-tax health savings account.

• 401K Retirement Savings: Matching contributions up to 4% of pay.

• Travel: Position requires business travel up to 50% and work in and around non-commercialaircraft.

All applicants must be authorized to work on a permanent basis in the United States.

Overwatch Imaging is an equal opportunity workplace and makes employment decisions based on merit and business needs regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability gender identity Veteran status or any other protected personal characteristic.

Export Control Compliance Notice
This position may involve access to data technology or software that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such employment is contingent upon the applicants ability to obtain any necessary export authorization as determined by an export compliance assessment conducted by the company.

Required Experience:

Manager