Software Engineer

Fortem is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for solving difficult problems. In this role you will primarily be responsible for designing, maintaining, and improving DroneHunter’s ability to autonomously seek and capture targets safely.

The ideal candidate combines technical expertise in embedded systems with architectural thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and a passion for building reliable, safety-critical drone platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test flight control and autonomy software, including state estimation, sensor fusion, and control loops
• Develop navigation and path-planning algorithms, including obstacle avoidance and GPS/GNSS-based positioning
• Build and maintain firmware for flight controllers and embedded hardware, working within real-time constraints
• Implement communication protocols for telemetry, command-and-control, and failsafe/lost-link scenarios
• Contribute to ground control station software for mission planning, monitoring, and post-flight analysis
• Build and run hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulations to validate software before field testing
• Collaborate closely with hardware, mechanical, and regulatory/compliance teams to ensure system-level reliability
• Participate in field testing and flight trials, iterating quickly based on real-world results
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code, and participate in code reviews
• Other software engineering tasks and projects as assigned by engineering leadership