Senior Integration Engineer

Location: Austin TX (Hybrid)

Travel: 1520% to test ranges partner facilities and live exercises

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance required

About NODA

NODA is a veteran-owned Series A defense technology company building the orchestration layer for autonomous unmanned systems. Our platform URZA coordinates fleets of heterogeneous vehicles across air sea and land for defense and intelligence customers. The Integration Engineering team owns the integration layer inside URZA: the framework that lets a new vehicle a new sensor or a new third-party autonomy stack become orchestratable. We expect every hire to be mission-driven with strong agency.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Integration Engineer to lead driver development and vehicle onboarding inside the URZA integration layer. You will design adapters and translation layers connecting URZA to diverse vehicle control protocols sensor stacks and third-party autonomy systems. You will own the work that turns we got the vehicle delivered into were flying it in URZA in HITL by Friday.

This is a software-leaning role with field-validated outputs. Most work is at a desk. A meaningful portion is at the bench or at a range.

What youll 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 URZAs 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.

What this role does not own

URZA platform development outside the integration layer (Core Engineering); customer-facing engagement delivery (Solution Engineering); field hardware readiness and RPIC coverage (Field Operations); distributed systems runtime architecture (Systems Engineering).

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering with 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); can debug at the message level.

• Pub-sub middleware fluency and HITL workflow experience.

• U.S. citizenship; able to obtain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on with autonomous systems or unmanned vehicles (UAS UGV USV UUV).

• Zenoh or comparable pub-sub middleware (DDS ROS2 RMW); routing and key-expression depth.

• Sensor integration depth (LIDAR cameras IMUs GNSS) or autonomy algorithm depth (planning controls perception SLAM).

• Prior defense autonomy or robotics company experience.

• Active security clearance.

Skills & Attributes

• Strong software engineer first; treats integration as engineering not scripting.

• Systems thinker across vehicle network middleware and orchestration layers.

• Structured debugger across hardware-software boundaries.

• Documentation-disciplined.

• Pragmatic with vendor partners; pushes back when partner-side decisions create downstream risk.

Benefits & Perks

Our culture fosters collaboration respect and trust empowering passionate people to do their best work. We offer a competitive salary comprehensive benefits and opportunities for career addition to an opportunity to take part in an innovative collaborative and fast-growing business with a highly motivated and skilled team we also take pride in taking care of our employees. Here are just a few ways that we show our appreciation:

• We offer comprehensive medical dental and visions plans

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan to invest in your long-term retirement goals 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

• Access to One Medical

• Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and more. Additional work-life services such as free legal and financial support are available to you as well.

Growth Path at NODA

Senior Integration Engineer Staff Integration Engineer Principal Integration Engineer. Lateral: Engineering Manager (Integration Engineering) Solution Architect Core Engineering.

Export Control Compliance

To conform to U.S. government export control regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) you must be a U.S. citizen lawful permanent resident of the U.S. protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) or otherwise eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

Equal Opportunity Statement

NODA AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and respectful workplace and to maintaining equitable employment and hiring practices. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and make all employment decisions without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.

As a federal contractor NODA AI complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action requirements including Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) as amended. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities throughout the recruiting hiring and employment process.

Consistent with applicable federal state and local laws qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with applicable fair chance and ban-the-box laws including the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance where applicable. We actively encourage qualified individuals of all backgrounds including women minorities protected veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC