In modern conflict, detection is everything.

But what if your system could detect without giving away its position?

What if you could track a threat in real time - without sending a signal?

What if the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum wasn’t just a battleground, but your advantage?

This company is answering those questions.

They’re designing fielded sensor systems that combine hardware, signal processing, and embedded intelligence - all built and owned here in Australia. Just tech that works, and is already in the hands of customers.

They’re now hiring a Software Engineering Lead to head up the embedded software team behind these products. You'll be managing engineers working at the lowest levels of the stack - Embedded C/C++, firmware, FPGA/VHDL - with direct influence over product capability and technical direction.

What you’ll do:

• Lead a 5-person embedded software team delivering real-time sensing and control software
  
  
• Build new features, maintain legacy systems, and ensure everything shipped is ready for the field
  
  
• Review code, manage team priorities, unblock engineers, and align delivery with broader product goals
  
  
• Interface with other engineering streams (hardware, systems, infra, apps) to ensure end-to-end integration
  
  
• Lift the bar on quality through best practices in design, documentation, testing and dev tooling

What you bring:

• Australian citizenship and NV1 clearance (or eligibility)
  
  
• 2–3+ years hands-on experience with embedded software/firmware development in real-time, multi-threaded environments and FPGAs
  
  
• Comfortable leading projects or small teams and coaching engineers through complexity
  
  
• Practical mindset: you know how to balance beautiful code with tight field requirements

Why join: You won’t be building prototypes that sit in a lab. You’ll be leading the team responsible for the software that runs on deployed systems - systems built to perform in contested environments and unpredictable conditions.

This is tech that matters. Built locally. Backed by real customers. And growing fast.

Reach out to Thaís on [email protected] to find out more.