Principal Software Engineer

Job description

Who We Are Firestorm is building the next generation of uncrewed aircraft and the advanced manufacturing systems that deliver them at speed. The Software Integration & Operations department owns the software layer that spans factory floor to cloud — the applications, automation, edge systems, and intelligence that make it possible to iterate product designs, automate advanced manufacturing, and scale production with uncompromising quality and rigor. About the Role As a Principal Engineer in the team, you are the senior-most technical leader across engineering execution. You raise the engineering bar, lead the hardest initiatives to completion, and serve as the connective tissue between the department head, the System Architect, and the engineering teams shipping the platform. You write production code when it matters, and you choose your leverage deliberately — mentoring a senior engineer through a design, stepping into an incident, leading a high-risk migration, or pair-programming on a critical path feature. Where the System Architect owns the reference architecture and the coherence of the system's design, the Principal Engineer owns the quality of how engineering is executed ag...