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Distinguished Engineer / Technical Fellow

Armada· R&D - Engineering
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Hybrid (Bellevue, WA), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Remote)$231.6k - $289.5kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Armada seeks a Distinguished Engineer / Technical Fellow to shape Armada’s long-term technical vision, lead architectural efforts across core product suites, and drive R&D for next-generation initiatives including Data Centers in Space. The role combines hands-on engineering leadership with strategic partnership development and acts as a technical diplomat to expand Armada’s reach into new frontiers.

Responsibilities

  • Architecting the Universal Edge: Lead the evolution of the Armada Edge Platform (AEP), ensuring seamless orchestration of compute and AI workloads across globally distributed, high-latency, and disconnected environments.
  • Next Horizon Projects: Drive the architectural roadmap for visionary initiatives, including Data Centers in Space. Adapt the Armada stack for orbital compute modules and solve radiation-tolerant software, thermal management, and power-constrained AI processing in LEO.
  • Strategic Partner Engineering: Collaborate with elite industry partners to co-design solutions that deepen Armada’s ecosystem and standardize platform infrastructure for terrestrial or orbital compute.
  • Technical Strategy: Define the 3–5 year technical roadmap with leadership on emerging technologies in high-density GPU orchestration and orbital data processing.
  • Hard-Problem Solver: Provide final escalation for complex architectural challenges in real-time data streaming, computer vision, and network-aware workload distribution.
  • Innovation & R&D: Lead PoCs for next-generation capabilities such as in-orbit inference, edge adaptive learning, and secure Earth-to-space data orchestration.
  • Mentorship: Elevate the engineering organization by mentoring Staff and Principal engineers and fostering architectural rigor.

Qualifications

  • Core Infrastructure Mastery: Deep understanding of Data Center operations, compute architectures (CPU/GPU/NPU), and AI infrastructure at scale from silicon to orchestration.
  • Experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record as a Distinguished Engineer, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical leader at a major infrastructure or AI company.
  • Distributed Systems Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of distributed systems and data storage in resource-constrained, remote, or denied environments.
  • Systems Programming: Mastery of Go, C++, or Rust, with understanding of software interaction with hardware and non-terrestrial networking layers.
  • Ecosystem Influence: Ability to collaborate across teams and with partners to build high-impact technical solutions that drive adoption and standards.

Skills

Required:Data Center and AI InfrastructureDistributed SystemsSystems Programming (Go/C++/Rust)Technical Leadership / Mentorship

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision (subsidized)
  • Health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA)
  • Dependent care FSAs (DCFSA)
  • Retirement plan options, including 401(k) and Roth 401(k)
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • 14 paid company holidays per year
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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