Senior Software Engineer I (Tools & Frameworks, AI)

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

As a Senior Software Engineer I focused on Tools & Frameworks, you are a project technical leader: you lead the technical execution of tooling and framework projects, set quality standards, and guide peers while managing cross-team dependencies. You own full projects or major portions of a multi-engineer project, exercising independent technical judgment across the project lifecycle.

You build deep expertise in the developer - tooling and framework domain — build systems, test and automation frameworks, and developer-facing platforms for embedded software — and begin influencing roadmap and architectural decisions. You coordinate across contributors and navigate ambiguity with minimal supervision, multiplying the productivity of every engineering team that adopts what you build.

•     5+ years experience of professional software development in C/C++, Go, Python and/or another systems programming language.
•     Strong experience developing, debugging, and shipping embedded software on Linux-based or backend services.
•     Demonstrated experience building or significantly extending developer tools and frameworks - build systems, test and automation frameworks, CI/CD, or SDKs - used by other engineers.
•     Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, run-time analysis, object-oriented design and code quality verification.
•     2+ years mentoring junior team members and/or leading small teams.

•     Experience designing SDKs or developer-facing platforms consumed by other engineering teams, and building reusable, hermetic, or reproducible build and test infrastructure for embedded or systems software.
•     Experience using agentic AI across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation, holding outcomes to architectural, performance, and maintainability standards.
•     Experience creating reusable AI workflows and shared standards that raise the baseline quality of AI-assisted development across a team.
•     You follow the latest developments in developer tooling, embedded software, and open source technologies, and can distinguish between promising new practices and passing trends.
•     Demonstrated growth in skills and capabilities toward the next level of technical leadership.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

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