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Software Engineer
Posted: 06/02/2026
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 31877
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: AERO - Aerospace
Job Description
Position Title: Software Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Software Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Software Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain the data pipeline from embedded sensor hardware through to database storage and internal dashboards
- Architect and build the backend database systems that store, index, and serve test and operational data (time-series, event logs, telemetry streams)
- Develop and maintain internal tooling and dashboards for real-time and post-test data visualization (including our PicoDash platform)
- Build and maintain APIs and data interfaces between hardware systems, databases, and visualization tools
- Coordinate with Electrical and Test Ops engineers on sensor data format requirements
- Identify and solve scaling bottlenecks as sensor count and sampling rates increase — multithreading, buffering, protocol optimization, data compression
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and test operations engineers to define data requirements interface specifications, and instrumentation architecture
- Maintain clear technical documentation for all systems, interfaces, and data schemas
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend systems, data infrastructure, or internal tooling
- Strong proficiency in Python; experience with C/C++/additional languages a plus
- Experience designing and working with databases — SQL and/or time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or similar)
- Comfort building backend services and APIs
- Experience with data pipeline design at scale — ingestion, buffering, queuing, and highthroughput processing
- Familiarity with multi-threading, concurrency, and performance optimization
- Ability to work effectively alongside hardware engineers and translate physical system requirements into software designs
- Experience in a lab, test, or R&D environment is a plus — you don't need to write firmware, but you should be comfortable in a room full of hardware
- Job Type: Full-time, Direct-Hire
- Salary Range: $120K-150K.
- Location: Alameda, CA (Onsite).
- ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
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