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# Vehicle Software Engineer - Rust Controls

- **Company:** STOKE Space Technologies
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $123,480.0 - $185,220.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Hardware Testing, Control Language, User Administration
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/vehicle-software-engineer-rust-controls-stoke-space-technologies-9844413

## About the Role

* Experience with Rust and Python
 * Strong systems-thinking approach with the ability to navigate complex, distributed software-hardware interactions
 * Strong math background
 * 2+ years of professional experience in software development, controls, or systems engineering
 * Ability to prioritize, self-direct, and ask for help

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience with control theory and laws
 * Software language or compiler background

## Description

Automation links the Vehicle Software ecosystem to hardware intent. As a Rust Controls Engineer, your primary focus will be building an automation framework that lets end users compose vehicle behavior from building blocks you own. These building blocks will be used daily across the company to perform benchtop checkouts, engine hotfires, and flight objectives. You will define the right boundaries and guardrails to enable users to navigate a control language that is operationally flexible yet appropriately restrictive. You will also own pieces of automation, dogfooding your building blocks as your software commands the physical world around it.

You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.

Responsibilities

 * Design useful abstractions for hardware control behavior in a distributed system
 * Create user-facing guardrails for an autonomy ecosystem
 * Develop ground and vehicle automation
 * Build software tests
 * Support hardware test


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