Front-End Software Engineer

The last frontier

Arctic Research and Development builds high-latitude technology to unlock the last great frontier on Earth. An expanse 1.5 times the size of the US, the Arctic is the triple point of national security, climatic shifts, and economic opportunity. We cut through this complexity while preserving the integrity of the planet’s most fragile wilderness.

Built by pioneers with 30+ years of polar experience, ARD knows that the High North is a wicked harsh environment. We've got frost-bite to prove it. Working at the fringes of technological capabilities — with an eye towards autonomy assisting in a place that is utterly inhospitable for humans — this is a company that takes big bets on hard problems.

If you want to build and deploy ground-up technology with real-world impact, at an inflection point in history that won’t reappear, we want you at ARD.

The role

As a Front-End Software Engineer at Arctic Research and Development, you’ll architect and develop the user interfaces of our Arctic operating system – ensuring that user experiences with our high-fidelity imagery and data intensive workflows are both powerful and intuitive. From mission dashboards to field-asset comms, your designs and interfaces will allow a seamless control between human operators and Arctic-deployed hardware.

Working alongside our back-end, GIS, and hardware engineers, you’ll regularly take direction from our CTO and internal deployment strategists, to move fast and ship often. This is more than building UIs — it’s a full-spectrum command and control interface that needs to be robust, seamless, and field-ready.

Core responsibilities

• Architect and iterate our real-time and map-based OS interfaces —building immersive dashboards and mission tools that
• interact with high fidelity/temporal imagery, large datasets, and hardware sensor data
• ⁠Balance responsiveness with data richness across disparate data streams while maintaining a low-friction, intuitive user experience.
• ⁠Consistently apply our ARD design language across multiple platforms and services such that the users can switch between these seamlessly and intuitively.
• ⁠Work with fast feedback loops: live demos, pilots, and short-cycle deployments
• Travel to the Arctic when needed for field testing and client meetings

What we value

• ⁠3+ years of front-end software experience, ideally in data-rich or remote-sensing environments 
• Demonstrated experience building responsive, cross platform interfaces and data visualizations
• Fluency in JS/TS, frameworks such as React, and modern CSS frameworks
• ⁠Experience with Swift, Kotlin or React Native
• Ability to operate with a large-degree of autonomy within a lean and competent team
• Readiness to operate in safe but cold environments to understand how your designs and code are deployed in the real-world

What we offer

• Competitive compensation
• Real field exposure – travel to Arctic sites and Outposts when needed
• Mission-driven culture – focus on impact, not hours logged