Embedded DevOps Engineer

Spear AI is seeking an engineer to provide Dev Ops and infrastructure for the embedded software team on our hardware platforms. This person will also serve as an informal interface between the embedded software team and the company-wide software group, reporting to the VP of software but co-located with the hardware team.

Your job will be to provide best practices for HIL, SIL, CI/CD, Deployment, Provisioning, Configuration, etc., to the firmware team using Spear AI’s cloud-based infrastructure and applications.

Spear AI serves the national security industry, providing hardware, software, and data solutions that span classification levels and are intended for operational deployment. Spear AI is a rapidly growing company with a commitment to the development of excellent products through continuous fielding. Spear offers competitive pay, stock options, excellent benefits, and generous paid time off.

This role goes to sea. You will personally participate in buoy deployments, recovery operations, and at-sea testing several times a year. The work requires the ability to lift and handle equipment on a small boat in open water, communicate clearly under field conditions, and perform fine manipulations on hardware while underway. This is not an optional or occasional aspect of the job.

It is one of the main reasons the position exists and one of the things that make our software better than anyone else’s.

If you’re the right candidate, within your first 60 days, four things will be true:

• You’ll have crafted and partially implemented a plan for CI/CD/HIL/SIL for our firmware.

• You’ll have evaluated our current provisioning and configuration systems and made substantial improvements that have been moved to production.

• You’ll have been to sea at least three times and have a good understanding of what our operators need to be successful.

• You’ll be deeply integrated with your teammates and emotionally invested in the mission and collective success.

This position will be part of two teams:
Spear AI’s mostly remote software team and our interdisciplinary hardware development team located in Falmouth, MA. The Hardware team includes a diverse group of engineers and technicians, including Mechanical hardware and board-level electronics Design Engineers, while the software team includes a diverse group of Data, Design, Full Stack, Infrastructure, and Machine Learning engineers. Successful candidates will work well with both teams and bridge the gap to deliver sensor systems that meet customer needs.

Responsibilities may vary, but will generally include:

• Own and develop the CI/CD/SIL/HIL testing pipeline for Spear AI’s embedded software.

• Personally develop and coordinate other spear resources to mesh the cloud-based software systems with the hardware systems to accelerate automation and error checking around all aspects of provisioning, configuration, deployment, etc., for our embedded software.

• Translate general system requirements to actionable software tasks and architecture.

• Mentor junior colleagues as the team grows.

This is a hardware/software integration role. Your experience must include previous hardware interactions.

• Expert in Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform.

• Expert in Docker and Kubernetes.

• Expert in CI/CD and Dev Ops with Git Hub Actions.

• Expert in HIL Testing.

• Proficiency in AWS and/or other cloud services.

• Proficiency in Python or Type Script.

• Proficiency with networking.

• Familiar with cybersecurity compliance frameworks like CMMC, PCI, or SOC.

• Experience deploying to air-gapped environments.

• Experience self-hosting on bare metal servers.

• Excellent verbal and good written communication skills.

• Experience working in a Linux environment.

You may be asked to obtain a SECRET or TOP SECRET security clearance. This will be at no expense to you. For resources on what a security background entails and what disqualifies people, refer to the CIA requirements.

We’re looking for someone with strong Software Engineering skills who shares our most important values:

• Any maritime operations experience, including small boat operations, over-the-side handling, field repair, and logistics of a…