# Integration Engineer

**Company:** [9 Mothers](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/9-mothers)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $140k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** APIs, rest, soap, Pub/Sub, JSON, xml, protobuf, Python, Kotlin, C++, C#, TCP/IP, cursor-on-target, link 16, vmf
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Integration Engineer building and maintaining connections between a counter-drone platform and external Command and Control (C2), sensor, and mission systems for defense customers. Requires 5+ years integrating software with enterprise platforms, strong API/messaging/protocol skills, and customer-facing troubleshooting in a fast-paced startup.

## Job Description

## Essential Duties

**C2 & Third-Party Platform Integration:** Design, build, and maintain integrations between our counter-drone system and external platforms, including Command and Control (C2) systems, sensor networks, and other mission systems used by our customers and partners.

**API & Interface Development:** Develop and maintain APIs, data feeds, and messaging interfaces (REST, SOAP, pub/sub, and similar) that expose our system's detection, tracking, and status data to external platforms in a reliable, low-latency manner.

**Protocol & Standards Work:** Implement and troubleshoot military and industry-standard data formats and messaging protocols (e.g., Cursor-on-Target, Link 16, VMF, TAK/ATAK, or comparable interoperability standards) as required by customer and partner systems.

**Requirements & Interface Definition:** Work directly with customers, partners, and internal engineering teams to gather integration requirements, define interface control documents (ICDs), and translate operational needs into technical specifications.

**Testing & Validation:** Build and execute integration test plans, including simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing, to verify correctness, timing, and reliability of data exchange between systems before and during field deployment.

**Field & Customer Support:** Support integration efforts during customer demonstrations, pilots, and field deployments, troubleshooting issues across the full stack—from our system, through the network, to the receiving platform.

**Documentation:** Produce and maintain clear integration documentation, interface specifications, and runbooks for internal teams and external partners.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of hands-on experience as an integration engineer, systems integration engineer, or similar role, integrating software products with external enterprise systems.
- Strong working knowledge of APIs (REST/SOAP), messaging and pub/sub systems, data serialization formats (JSON, XML, Protobuf), and general middleware/integration patterns.
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language commonly used for integration work (e.g., Python, Kotlin, C++, or C#), with the ability to read and write production-quality integration code.
- Comfortable diagnosing issues across the network, application, and data layers when an integration isn’t behaving as expected—strong understanding of TCP/IP networking and system-level debugging.
- Resourceful self-starter comfortable working directly with customers and partners, owning ambiguous integration problems end-to-end, and navigating shifting priorities in a fast-moving startup environment.
- This position requires access to export-controlled information under ITAR. Only U.S. citizens are permitted. Must be willing to submit a background check.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Direct experience integrating with Command and Control (C2) systems or other military mission systems, including familiarity with formats/protocols such as Cursor-on-Target, Link 16, VMF, STANAG (4586, TDL, etc), or TAK/ATAK.
- Familiarity with Android Studio (for ATAK development) and Visual Studio (for Windows-based C2 integration).
- Experience working in a regulated, ITAR, CMMC, or compliance-bound defense environment, or prior experience at a defense contractor or with DoD customers.
- Experience working with radar, EO/IR, RF, or other sensor data, telemetry streams, or counter-UAS/counter-drone systems.
- Active security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.

## Benefits

- Meaningful Early Equity: You aren’t just an employee; you are a foundational owner. Your contributions directly drive the value of your stake in the company.
- Direct Roadmap Influence: Forget the bureaucracy of big defense. You will have a seat at the table, directly shaping our product and technology trajectory from day one.
- Mission-Critical Work: We don’t build for "what if." We build systems the Department of War actively needs to counter immediate, real-world threats.
- The Builder’s Playground: Work in a brand-new lab fully optimized for rapid prototyping, equipped with NVIDIA Jetsons, high-end scopes, and 3-D printers.
- 100% Employer-Paid Premiums: We cover 100% of your medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums and cover 50% of healthcare premiums for your dependents.
- Unlimited PTO: We value results, not clock-watching. Take the time you need to stay sharp and recharge.
- Zero Red Tape: You report to the founders. You have the autonomy to make technical decisions that would take months of committee approval at a larger firm.
- Austin-Based Culture: Join an onsite team in Austin, TX, where we prioritize high-bandwidth collaboration and rapid field-testing.
- Relocation Assistance: We want the best talent in the room. If you aren’t in Austin yet, we'll help you get here, to make your transition to the Silicon Hills seamless.

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