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Role Description: 

Defense Unicorns is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join our UDS Product Engineering team. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and end users to help build the right solutions and build them well.

As an Associate Software Engineer, you’ll grow at the intersection of product development and technical execution. You’ll contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of well-scoped features with guidance from experienced engineers, building practical experience on systems that support mission outcomes. Our engineers work across a portfolio that includes

• UDS Data — open source data platform for all DOW mission sets from the enterprise to the edge
• UDS Fleet — manage distributed systems across Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) and fully airgapped environments  
• UDS Image Factory — developer tooling for composing complete, mission-ready system images (OS, Kubernetes, applications, configuration) into a single deployable artifact  
• UDS Foundation — core platform and tooling that power UDS, serving Platform Engineers building and opera