Build & Release Engineer

About Overwatch

Overwatch Imaging is an imagery intelligence technology company working to bring sensor autonomy to time-critical airborne search, detection, tracking and monitoring missions. Our Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software, native to our own line of purpose-built Smart Sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms, brings Superhuman Vision and Workload Reduction to users of real-time imagery intelligence systems. We fundamentally believe that modern edge processing and AI-enabled autonomy can perform an important set of time‑critical imagery intelligence missions better, faster and more safely than humans can alone.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River, Oregon, we support private sector companies as well as federal, state and local agencies around the world with missions ranging from wildfire mapping and disaster response to law enforcement, border security, maritime domain awareness and tactical intelligence.

Continuously improve the C++ build ecosystem, including:

• Improve the structure and evolution of our CMake based build system
• Improve build performance, modularity, and long-term maintainability
• Ensure the build system scales with codebase complexity and remains understandable to the team
• Drive consistency across C++, Python, and emerging Rust components

• Establish reliable, reproducible approaches to dependency management and packaging
• Ensure consistency across development, CI, and deployed systems
• Improve how build artifacts are versioned, distributed, and consumed

• Own the reliability and scalability of build and CI systems across x86 and ARM (Jetson) environments
• Improve infrastructure consistency and maintainability
• Reduce instability and flakiness in builds and test execution

• Improve visibility into build health, failures, and performance
• Ensure issues are diagnosable and actionable
• Enable engineers to trust the build and release system

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in C++ build systems, build/release engineering, or similar roles
• Experience working in Linux‑based development environments

• Build system design, structure, and performance optimization
• Dependency management and packaging systems
• CI/build infrastructure in multi‑architecture environments (x86 + ARM)

• Jetson or other ARM-based systems
• Cross‑compilation environments
• Offline or air‑gapped deployments
• Mixed‑language builds (C++, CUDA, Rust, Python)
• Deployment of machine learning models to Tensor
  
  RT environments
• Offline or air‑gapped deployment, installer systems, and upgrade/migration workflows

• Build system is clear, modular, and scalable
• Developer workflows and build results are consistent and aligned
• Builds are fast, reliable, and reproducible across environments
• Dependency and packaging systems are consistent and predictable
• Build infrastructure is stable and low‑maintenance
• Packaged software is reliable and deterministic

• Growth Opportunities:
  As a team member of a true startup, you will learn by doing and shape our future. The opportunities are limitless for those who want to grow their career.
• Impact Opportunity:
  We work on missions that matter to keep people's safe and make the world better, and we do it at the speed of a startup.
• Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment with amazing teammates. The Overwatch Imaging leadership team believes in an open-door policy, meaning everyone has a voice and access to guidance, advice, feedback, and the ability to pitch crazy new ideas.
• Late Start Wednesday: A weekly block to have focus time away from meetings and calls. An opportunity to work from home, flex your schedule, or self-directed time to focus on training and development.
• Time Off:
  Generous unlimited PTO policy to empower employees to make decisions about work‑life balance based on work and home needs.
• Holidays:
  Overwatch Imaging recognizes 10 company holidays.
• Ownership:
  Equity:
  Stock…