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# Software Engineer - Embedded Systems (Cleared) at Swoop Technologies

- **Company:** Swoop Technologies
- **Location:** Huntsville, AL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swoop/d9095619-13eb-49c2-a1eb-3ab6884e2af8

## Job description

About Swoop:

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world. This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Huntsville, AL that can work 3+ days in onsite.

Impact:

Joining our Edge Team means you will get to work on building an operating system. Not an abstraction, virtualization, or data layer. A legitimate distributed operating system. This OS has to work across heterogeneous instruction sets, support a new generation of distributed system abstractions, treat security as a first principle, and work at the scale of power grids and entire militaries. You will influence the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the physical world - building a compute model the OS schedules and executes across the most geopolitically relevant problem sets. It is a bad-ass problem where every member of the team contributes tangibly on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain embedded system firmware including low-level drivers, bootloaders, and other OS-critical functions to enable reliable OS initialization and hardware interaction.
- Contribute to OS integration and kernel-level modules, ensuring efficient communication between hardware abstraction layers and higher-level system software.
- Design and implement application-layer features and system services that leverage firmware interfaces, optimizing for performance, resource use, and robustness.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to debug complex issues spanning firmware, operating system, and application boundaries.
- Collaborate closely with the deployment engineering team, solving technical challenges for various customer requirements

You Should Have:

- Active TS Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
- 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following: Operating System/Kernel development, RTOS, Embedded Systems/Firmware design, Microkernel development, Bare Metal development
- Software development experience in C and Rust
- Understanding of low level hardware systems
- Travel Requirement - 5-20%

Bonus if you have:

- Knowledge of one or more of the following: Microcontrollers, SoC, device drivers, hardware bring-up, power management, ARM processors, performance optimization, file systems, bootloading, firmware, x86 assembly, system BIOS, FPGAs or hardware/software integration
- Understanding of clocks and timing as it pertains to processor instructions
- Familiarity with serial protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB
- Demonstrated knowledge of systems engineering and distributed systems

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

## About Swoop Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swoop Technologies builds a secure, distributed operating system (SwoopOS) that digitizes and orchestrates physical-world equipment—from military assets and electrical grids to manufacturing facilities—enabling programmable, autonomous operations at the edge.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding rounds; appears bootstrapped or early-stage)
- **Headquarters**: Lakeland / Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (company has active operations and a growing team)
- **Founders**: Paul Bottum (Founder & CEO) and Quinn Bottum (Co-Founder, President & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Defense, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, distributed computing, autonomous systems
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily government/military (USSOCOM, etc.) and industrial sectors (energy, manufacturing, supply chain)
- **Mission**: “To organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure” — liberating trapped physical assets into programmable building blocks.

## Products & Services
- **SwoopOS**: A secure, distributed operating system that decomposes physical equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment. It provides an integration plane and distributed computing domain to solve interoperability, bloat, and networking challenges across heterogeneous, multi-generational infrastructure.
- **Valhalla SDK**: Software development kit for building and deploying distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI on top of SwoopOS.
- **Surf**: A browser-based interface to operate and manage the SwoopOS environment.
- **Cybersecurity & Edge Solutions**: Cybersecurity capabilities embedded in the OS, enabling secure data handling and autonomous action at the edge (where data is produced/consumed).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of ~36 employees (with strong growth in job postings: +566.7% YoY); revenue not publicly available
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No investors disclosed. Talent sources include Volaris Capital Management, PwC, Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton, USSOCOM, Microsoft — suggesting deep ties to defense and consulting ecosystems.
- **Growth Signals**: Active job postings (20+), rapid quarterly hiring increase (+81.8%), technology already deployed in “some of the world’s most sophisticated environments.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Foundational approach**: SwoopOS operates at the OS level, not just the application layer, providing a unified solution for legacy infrastructure, distributed computing, and security.
- **Defense & critical infrastructure focus**: Purpose-built for environments where reliability, security, and real-time control are non-negotiable.
- **Technical depth**: Heavy engineering team (56% technical), proprietary stack (Kubernetes, PyTorch, NVIDIA, Terraform, GitLab, etc.), and experience with high-assurance systems (cleared positions common).

## Strategic Focus
- **Digitizing the physical world**: Moving beyond cloud/edge to directly program physical assets (grids, factories, military equipment).
- **Autonomous action at the edge**: Enabling search and analysis to result in automated, real-world actions rather than just insights.
- **Scaling the team**: Rapid hiring in engineering, cloud systems, and program management, with a strong preference for cleared personnel.

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful mission**: Work on technology that directly impacts national security, energy resilience, and industrial modernization.
- **Autonomy & challenge**: The company emphasizes “meaningful challenges” and gives engineers autonomy to solve them.
- **Hybrid/Remote flexibility**: Multiple office locations (Saint Paul, MN; Rome, NY; Minneapolis, MN) and remote options for some roles (e.g., Cloud Systems Engineer remote, others hybrid or in-office).
- **Engineering culture**: High concentration of technical talent, modern tooling, and opportunities to work on low-level systems, distributed computing, and AI/LLM infrastructure.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid hiring signals a scaling organization; employees can grow with the company.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/swooptechnologies)
2. [Swoop Technologies Website](https://swooptech.com/)
3. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/swoop-technologies)
4. [The Org](https://theorg.com/org/swoopsrch)

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