Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Resilient Edge & Tactical Networking
webAI is an Austin-based sovereign AI company developing local-first, specialized AI systems that organizations can build, deploy, and operate on infrastructure they own.
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About webAI
webAI provides collaborative intelligence software centered on the webAI App, specialized Personas, and its Intelligence Delivery Network. Its platform is designed to keep intelligence close to organizational data and hardware, support private and specialized models, and enable teams to build, share, and improve AI without relying exclusively on centralized cloud systems.
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About the Role
You will drive Public Sector initiatives building secure, resilient, distributed data systems for the tactical edge, where connectivity is denied, degraded, intermittent or limited. You will design store-and-forward transport and sync protocols, implement local peer discovery over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mesh links, apply DTN principles and CRDTs, and integrate edge devices, mobile environments and cloud services. You will also tune performance on resource-constrained hardware, implement authentication and authorization patterns, and partner with hardware, mobile and backend teams to validate functionality in field conditions.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of software engineering experience building systems software or distributed networking services
- Strong proficiency in Rust or other systems level languages (Go, C, or C++)
- Experience with store-and-forward architectures, DTN, async I/O or local device-to-device transport layers
- Practical experience solving synchronization challenges under intermittent or low-throughput networks (DDIL)
- Nice to have: Android development (NDK, Kotlin, KMP, CMP), hybrid mobile/cloud architecture, field testing of wireless hardware, Merkle DAGs/CRDTs, embedded hardware or robotics orchestration
Responsibilities
- Design and implement store-and-forward transport and data-synchronization protocols for low-bandwidth, high-latency, DDIL conditions
- Implement local peer discovery and async I/O transports over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE and ad-hoc mesh networks
- Apply delay tolerant networking principles and CRDTs and content-addressable storage for offline-capable applications
- Develop software spanning field edge devices, mobile environments and upstream cloud services
- Lead tuning, memory management and debugging for resource-constrained hardware
- Implement authorization and authentication security patterns for DDIL and contested environments
- Partner with hardware, mobile and backend teams to validate end-to-end functionality under simulated and live field constraints
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- High-deductible HSA option with $200/month company contribution
- 401k match (US-based only)
- Equity options
- Flexible PTO policy
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Continuing education support
- Basic company-paid life insurance
- Supplemental life insurance
- Company-paid short and long term disability
- Free parking for in-office employees
