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title: 'Software Engineer in Test at Swoop Technologies'
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# Software Engineer in Test at Swoop Technologies

- **Company:** Swoop Technologies
- **Location:** Minneapolis, MN / St. Paul, MN
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swoop/eb121f4d-6f30-4d22-bc02-d58cb07d0852

## 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 Minneapolis/St. Paul who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact:

As a SET, you will become an expert in our testing and tooling infrastructure at Swoop. You’ll be critical to increasing the expansion of our existing test automation frameworks and improving test coverage across a range of Swoop products that include hardware and embedded systems to a high performance web application. You will also be instrumental in identifying the tooling necessary to build automation and efficiency into our build process. Your work will help ensure a successful deployment of Swoop software into our customers' critical environments.

What You’ll Do:

- Build, scale, and help operate Swoop’s testing and tooling infrastructure
- Seek to automate unit, functional, and end to end testing - creating a gold standard testing environment
- Configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in our CI/CD environments
- Identify and drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
- Ensure no regression and conducting manual testing of new and existing feature sets
- Work with engineers to define and implement best testing practices earlier in the development process
- Work with our deployment engineers to convert scenario based testing into an automated testing framework

You Should Have:

- 3+ yrs writing automated testing and tooling with working knowledge in Python and Javascript
- A strong understanding of CI/CD and Build pipelines
- An interest in continuing to grow your knowledge and skills in test infrastructure, frameworks, test provisioning, and configuration using GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker
- You understand the importance of testing versus QA, and bring a solid understanding of testing principles and methodologies
- A passion for working across multiple engineering teams, championing clean code, and building testing earlier into the development process
- A meticulous nature and attention to detail, driven to pick things apart and make development teams stronger
- Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance
- Travel Requirement - 5-20%

Bonus if you have:

- Experience writing test frameworks in several programming languages
- Have experience building internal tooling focused on automation, efficiency, and reliability
- Experience writing automated testing and tooling in C or Rust

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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